Boyhood is our own private neighborhood of life, a great place to visit. It's where our best friends live and the place we've hidden all our secret joys.

My buddy is making his Planned Man debut with his first comment on the sixth Commandment—"Honor thy Father...".   He shows what that Commandment means to all with eyes to see and without a whiff or sound of woe-is-me grief. 

The arc of history makes widows.  The lives of the mass of men since the beginning have been nasty, brutish and short. Here's why that's good news for all of us.