Your Inner Child Wants to Join an Adult Sports League

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Do you miss the good old days of swinging for the fences, scrimmaging against friends at the park or building small mountains of sunflower seeds in the dugout? Until recently, I’d never given into the nostalgia of my glory days. Then I discovered that the kickball-shaped hole in my heart could be filled by one of the adult kickball...

Easy, Last-Minute Halloween Costumes

What? You mean you didn’t spend the last 12 months preparing your costume?! You’re a disgrace to Halloween, sir! Don’t even tell me you’re going as some kind of lame play-on-words (*face-palm*). As punishment, you’ll face piñata duty: We hang you from the nearest tree, wrap you in tissue paper and give the trick-or-treaters waffle-ball bats and tell them it’s open season on your cranium. Your only hope...

Do-It-Yourself AC Maintenance

Guest post by Darryl Bacher: Air conditioning maintenance is not really something we can go at with our normal bang-it-with-a-wrench-until-it-gets-the-point methods. If the AC goes out, chances are you are going to have to call a professional to come and make repairs. It’s going to be a tough pill to swallow for a lot of us, but some things are just too expensive (and important) to mess around with if we don’t...

Why a Personal Trainer is a Good Idea

You might think that all you need to get in shape is a weight bench and consistent effort to get into the kind of shape you want. And you’re right — to a point. There are some significant benefits to training with an expert, and a lot of pitfalls that you can fall into when you don’t know exactly what you’re doing. Here’s why starting with a trainer is worth it. Trainers provide external...

How Do You Juggle Family and Career

It’s not just a question for working moms anymore. Definitions of manhood have shifted to include a more active role for men as fathers and partners. In fact, more men report work-family conflicts than women. Just as we’ve seen rates of depression rise in women over the last few decades, I predict that juggling family life and work will start to take its toll on men as well. It’s not a gender-based thing;...

Custom Shirts Almost Look Too Good

I know why I’ve gotten sucked into buying so many baggy, ill-fitting dress shirts. I hate shopping. I hate trying on clothes and, what’s more, I hate being measured for clothes. It’s possibly the most boring activity known to man. But if you’ve ever found the perfect shirt by accident, you’ve asked yourself, “Why can’t all my shirts fit this good?” They should. They can. And you can get them without...