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  “It Takes a Village to Raise a Child”—But It Takes Men to Build a Man

  April 7, 2014 | in Cover, Defining the Modern Gladiator, Issue 5 | Wes Roberts | 0

  As men, we’re not all that comfortable with an article that begins like this. Whether we swagger through life just in our heads or occasionally with our whole-body attitudes, there is a sincere crisis going on within our society. Fatherlessness. Maybe you had that. I did as well. When I, the last of my parent’s […]

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  How to Maintain Balance in a Technologically Advanced World—Part Three

  March 5, 2014 | in Defining the Modern Gladiator, Editor's Picks | Wes Roberts | 0

  The Key to Being Balanced For better or even sometimes for worse, we as men have had someone in our growing up years look at us and say something like, “Look at me!”  “Let me see your eyes so I know you are listening to me!”  “Don’t you look away.” Masculine souls of any age […]

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  How to Maintain Balance in a Technologically Advanced World—Part Two

  February 6, 2014 | in Cover, Defining the Modern Gladiator | Wes Roberts | 0

  Be Careful! Maintain Balance Growing up in rural Oregon in the 40s and 50s among loggers and ranchers, models of true manhood were fairly rough and tumble.  Hard work was honored.  Calloused hands were one of the badges of honor—wimps had the smooth hands.  A broken limb, or three, was expected if one rode and […]

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  How to Maintain Balance in a Technologically Advanced World—Three Part Segment

  January 1, 2014 | in Cover, Defining the Modern Gladiator | Wes Roberts | 0

  Balance in a Techno World—Part 1 Unless it’s happening to us, we can often smile at or maybe even laugh with someone losing their balance, as long as they don’t hurt themselves.  There are some scars on my right knee from a mountain biking accident this past summer. I was not laughing about that, at […]

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  What is a Real Man?

  December 13, 2013 | in Defining the Modern Gladiator | Wes Roberts | 0

  A real man is…? Too often these days a man—a real man, a good man, a man of any age or ethnicity—is often defined by his size, his strength, his accomplishments, his skills, his smarts, his looks, his connections, perhaps even his generosity.  In the right perspective, those do carry merit.  Well, to an extent. […]