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Dark Firewater (Part Two)
This is Part Two of a post I began yesterday. Click here to read Part One. The words of the fire resonated with me so deeply. I have been so depressed for the past few months. I feel like the whole year has been a year of writing, but the past few months have been…
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Dark Firewater (Part One)
This is a pretty long post, so I’m publishing it in two parts. Here’s Part One. Part Two will come tomorrow. In the woods behind my house, there sits a fire pit. I built it shortly after we moved here, and used it a lot for the first few years. Lately, it has sat idle.…
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My Movember Confession
I grew the moustache. I blogged a few times. I told anyone who asked about the #Movember movement. I told people the importance of men’s health. I told them how so many men either ignore or refuse help when they need it. I told them how important it was for men to take care of…
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Cheating in Movember
So the picture above is of me today, November 21. Look how luxuriant and thick that moustache is. Not bad for three weeks of growth, right? Ah, how I wish. You see, this year I cheated. The “official rules” of the Movember program is that you begin November clean-shaven, and grow the moustache in throughout…
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You’re Not a Burden.
It’s day seven of Movember. Throughout this month, many people around the world (including me) are growing moustaches to build awareness of men’s health issues. Many, many thanks to all the kind women who commented on my post a few days ago, in which I aired my concerns about focusing on men at a time…
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One Down
About two months ago, I submitted a proposal for my book, Darkwater: Memoir of a Pastor Who Lives with Depression to two publishers. I knew that it could take several months to hear back from them. I don’t know how the internal workings of publishing houses work, but I imagine that they have to work through…
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Movember in an Age of #MeToo
It’s day three of Movember, the month in which I join millions of other men in wearing a moustache, in order to bring awareness to men’s health issues. But I’ll be honest: there’s something that seems really off this year about this, especially so soon after the Kavanaugh hearings. There’s something that just seems wrong…
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It’s Movember
I have been rocking an excellent multicolored beard for some time now. It’s become more and more grey, with flecks and stripes of red still in it as a throwback to my youth. (My beard has always come in red, despite my dark brown hair. Call me GingerChin. No, actually, please don’t.) But now the…
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