William Kenower
The Good Men Project
Seattle, WA, United States
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Past articles by William:
Practicing Kindness
Why we can’t give to others what we haven’t given to ourselves. → Read More
Learning To Listen
Lessons on life and writing from Beethoven. → Read More
Things That Grow
— A friend of mine passed away the other day. My wife and I raced to his house shortly after he’d been found so we could talk to the police and wait for the people from the funeral home to come to collect his body. It was a fairly long wait, one we spent surrounded by all his stuff. There were his sandals where he’d left them by his chair the night before; the crossword puzzle he’d just… → Read More
True Apologies
They begin by remembering there is nothing wrong with you. → Read More
Unconditional Suffering
Despair has no prejudice. → Read More
Imagine Everyone Would Say Yes
Some dating advice from a married guy. → Read More
Happy Endings
— I was twenty-five and had moved to Los Angeles to become a screenwriter. I did not particularly love screenwriting but I liked to write and I wanted to be very successful. I could not imagine my life without success anymore than I could imagine surviving without breathing. My plan was to write movies without happy endings. My favorite movie at that time was China Town, which I thought had the… → Read More
Michelle and the Prince
— Michelle was my dorm’s RA my freshman year at Hofstra University. She was a senior and felt to me like a competent older sister, whose attention, I could sense, was already turning to life after school. If I had a question, I could find her in her special, RA apartment, with its own living room and a little kitchen, and she would answer my question patiently. I appreciated her knowledge and… → Read More
No One Can Save You
Why we're all our own experts. → Read More
Being Enough
When my youngest son Sawyer was four, his preschool teacher suggested it might be a good idea to have someone from the state come to the classroom and observe him. She’d noticed a few things about his behavior that might be tricky when it was time for him to go to Kindergarten. My wife and I agreed, and the next time I picked him up I noticed a neatly dressed woman in the corner of the room with… → Read More
Free Mind
The only rule we cannot break. → Read More
Choosing Love
We only ever have two choices. → Read More
The Real Story
Funny how the stories we tell ourselves about people are usually wrong. → Read More
Just Like Me
We are closer to the stars than we think. → Read More
Normal Intimacy
How I learned a little about life and love from my first visit to a strip club. → Read More
The Path to Success
Turn 'having fun' into a discipline. → Read More
The Price of Acceptance
What no bribe can ever buy you. → Read More
Equal Suffering
Everyone's story deserves to be told. → Read More
The Cheapest Therapy I Know
Telling good stories to overcome shame. → Read More
Real Men
We play by the rules of love. → Read More