The 40-Year-Old Virgin

The 40-Year-Old Virgin

Dear Diary, I am 40 years old, and today, I finally lost my virginity. No, not that virginity; today, I changed my first diaper. I know what you’re thinking: You’re 40 and you just changed your first diaper? It’s hard to believe, I know, but...
Let Men Do Men Things

Let Men Do Men Things

Caution: Men Working My dad and I just finished a garden retaining wall / walkway project we started a few months ago.  We worked on it diligently every weekend it wasn’t raining and this weekend, finished it in the drizzle.  We built a 5-block high retaining...
The Blind Date From Hell (pt2)

The Blind Date From Hell (pt2)

I pulled up to Becky’s place in my Mustang and lightly tapped the horn, as she’d asked me to do.  I waited.  And waited.  The house wasn’t in the best part of town which should have tipped me off right there but I’m an eternal optimist. I...
The Blind Date From Hell (pt1)

The Blind Date From Hell (pt1)

It was the summer of ’91 and the first time in my life since I’d began dating that I found myself alone.  I just came off an engagement break-up and had met a girl at college who went home for the summer.  She would eventually become my first wife seven...
Getting There From Here

Getting There From Here

Men can be defined in more ways than having a penis.  We like our sports, whether we’re playing them or watching them.  We fart in our sleep even if we swear up and down that we don’t.  And we love to give directions. Men will even compete over who has the...