As a teacher, husband, and new father in the ’70s, expectations of what it meant to be a man changed. I can remember telling a friend, “I grew up idolizing John Wayne and had to become Alan Alda.”
For my younger readers, it meant that men raised to admire the strong, silent, macho type ...
Q. Why do I have such lousy relationships? I’m a good person, honest. I try my best at school and in sports, I help out at home, I put up with my brothers (and this is NOT easy). I start out with someone, and it feels good. I think this is right. And then, something happens, like I get ...
On a summer evening in Milwaukee, with his team mired near the bottom of the National League, Pirates' manager Bobby Bragan emerged from the dugout mid-game.
Bragan headed toward the umpires. Strangely enough, he was sipping from a small drinking carton. Moments earlier, the brash Bucco ...