On Success and Salvation: What Does Our Work Say About Us?
This is the opening editorial from the las issue of Sword&Spade magazine, and unmatched print publication for men and their households. --- For years I’ve been hunting down the Foxfire books with a peculiar passion. The Foxfire publishing group started out as a magazine overseen by a flailing teacher in his effort to engage students...
Success is Not One of the Names of God
Today is a nice rest day between the hills of yesterday and the mountains of tomorrow. In all my years of reading guidebooks, I’ve never come across a line so intensely condescending and so immediately soul-crushing as this one. It was Day 2 of the Camino Primitivo, an ancient pilgrimage route across the northwestern corner of Spain. We were...
How Do You Spell $ucce$$?
A client of mine sat in my office and complained about not being able to make ends meet. His purchase of an expensive home in a gated community had pushed his budget beyond the breaking point. He took personal responsibility: “I wanted to breathe the rarified air of material success. What I found was that the gate of my community locked me in, ra...