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Are you super busy, always trying to get something accomplished?  In “The Hidden Trauma of Overachievement,” Amanda Westland explains that overachievement is a survival instinct resulting from unresolved childhood wounds that leads many people to associate their value with how productive they are. It’s a flight response that causes some folks to stay perpetually busy …

The first time I took to the computer to write a book, or to attempt to write a book, I’d quit teaching. I was so disturbed by what I’d witnessed in public schools I started reading voraciously about education. That research, along with my personal experience, ignited a fire that never went out. Though I …

Ha! Gotcha with that headline, didn’t I? I’m posting this video purely for your entertainment. I’ve watched it numerous times because I find it hysterical. Don’t show it to your feminist friends because feminists have no sense of humor. Also, wouldn’t it be lovely if we could debate this civilly today?

Like Brett Cavanaugh, I too went to high school and college in the 1980s. Like Cavanaugh, I too attended a Catholic prep school. And like most of my contemporaries, I went to parties and drank beer. (For the record, I smoked, too. Shocking!) ‘Keggers,’ as we called them then, were indeed common—in both high school …

At face value, it may seem odd that a woman would advise a man on how to be, well, a man. In fact, for a long time I resisted writing this at all for exactly that reason. Shouldn’t men, not women, tell men how to be men?Ideally, yes. Unfortunately, it isn’t happening—for two reasons. One, we have a record number of boys growing up fatherless; and Dad has always been a boy’s go-to source for learning what it means to be a man. Second, America is embroiled in a gender war, one in which the sexes