We are eating the last bits of the half a pig we bought late last year. This week, I braised two forelegs and the last two pieces of pork belly that were in the freezer.

There are two challenges to working with this pig,… Read full post »

What does it mean to be a free man in the 21st century?

Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in the United States in October of 1862, and it became effective on January 1, 1863. To say the effects were not immediate is an understatement, particularly in what would become the… Read full post »

Writers form bonds with one another, beginning with the first words we read … and write.

When I first met Jess Stoner, it was online and in the context of poetry. Due to the distance between us—she lives in the “sweat and brisket of Austin,” Texas, while I live a… Read full post »

What’s your Gay Pride story?

The life worth living includes the arts.

Here on The Good Men Project, we are constantly absorbed with the question: What is a good man in the 21^st century? The presuppositions are that, while we used to think we knew what our lives were supposed to look like, the world has/… Read full post »

Implications for combat veterans as the APA considers revisions to the DSM-V.

This past week, the American Psychiatric Association was meeting in Philadelphia for, among other things, discussion of proposed changes to next year’s DSM-V. Among the presentations in the military track of this/… Read full post »

Justin Cascio muses on how our presidents’ affections toward mary-jane makes them relatable, not  disgraceful.

Do you remember that scene from Harold and Kumar Go To Guantanamo, where Harold and Kumar smoke pot with George W. Bush? It made me look at the then-sitting President with a d/… Read full post »

The military is a family that grieves.

Patricia, who has been married to my father-in-law for twenty-seven years, called last October, on the day after Dennis died.

She asked us to come because she needed to print out a draft of her husband’s obituary, and the printer was out of toner.… Read full post »

Ex-gay and Christian weight loss ministries freight the body with sin.

In the mid-nineteenth century, fat bodies were seen differently. There was no Weight Watchers, no Jenny Craig. The first health food movements were barely nascent, embodied in leaders like temperance minister Sylvester Grah… Read full post »

The types of greens or potatoes you use in Roman Hash are up to you; you can even choose to fry the potatoes in bacon fat, or skip the cheese at the end. If you use both very hearty greens (such as collards) and very delicate greens (such as arugula),… Read full post »

Justin Cascio offers insight to a Washinton Post story about a gender variant 5 year-old child, who was born a girl and insists he is a boy.

On Sunday, The Washington Post ran an intriguing profile of a 5 year-old child who was born a girl, but since he was… Read full post »

CNN is running a compelling interview with former Greenpeace leader Paul Gilding.

In ecological terms, Paul Gilding says that we are spending 150% of what we make. That’s not a responsible way to run one household’s expenses. When the household is the whole world, the questions of how we… Read full post »

May is National Bike Month. Sponsored by the League of American Bicyclists, National Bike Month includes dates for celebrating Bike to School Day, on May 9, and for the grown ups, Bike to Work Week, May 14-18, culminating in...
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May is National Bike Month. Sponsored by the League of American Bicyclists, National Bike Month includes dates for celebrating Bike to School Day, on May 9, and for the grown ups, Bike to Work Week, May 14-18, culminating in...
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How to shop for, prepare, and love kale and collards.

Our winter vegetable share has ended, and our summer share has not yet begun to produce. The winter farmer's market, where I was getting some early salad and braising greens, is over and the summer market will not/…

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Rendering beef fat is a smelly business. It looks and feels like stinky candles. It takes hours to render any quantity of raw cubed fat, and the/…

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Last month, Massachusetts Senators Scott Brown (R) and John Kerry (D) were hailed by the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy for their support of Senate bill MAP-21, “Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century,” which preserved funding...

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Meat and potatoes have gotten a bad rap over the years, and they don’t deserve it. I’ve changed how I source and prepare my food so that I can be sure it’s good, healthy food, all the way to its source. Your meat and potatoes are probably going to kill you,… Read full post »

I will sometimes take a picture of my dinner, especially if I'm thinking of this blog and want to document what we're eating. I like the idea of doing this often enough to get a seasonal portrait of our food. I can come back around next year in late winter, before…

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My therapist told me this quote from Oscar Wilde, supposedly… Read full post »

See the first article in this series here: Choosing a style of footwear.Since the first winter cycling footwear article appeared in February, we’ve had one good snowfall, which has almost entirely melted away in the past...

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In Japan, children are taught about healthy eating from early school age, in a unit called shokuiko, or “food education.†Last year it was reported that McDonald’s, home of the Happy Meal, now produces food education materials used in schools in Japan. According to Dr. Yoni… Read full post »

Cassoulet over steamed kale Two fine foods that go great together, especially in winter.


I treat kale and collards as interchangeable, being sturdy, leafy green vegetables with relatively unassertive flavors. They take less time to cook, but longer to wash and chop than cabbage, another… Read full post »