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Hey, Wolf & Iron, What Happened to Your Logo?
Thanks for asking! If you subscribe to the email list (and you should, here) or have visited our Facebook page or other social media venues, you will have noticed some changes in the Wolf & Iron branding. The old logo was way cool, but it was also way like ...
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TRThursday: Master of Human Destinies am I!
If we were to tread along Theodore Roosevelt’s path to manliness we would see a trail blazed through the jungles of strength and forests of knowledge. One of the most appealing qualities of the Colonel, both then and now, was that he could relate to the man on horseback just as well as ...
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TRThursday: The Glory of Work and the Joy of Living
“The man who learns to love hard work will enjoy all of life.” – Unknown
This #TRThursday we will look at a passage from the Colonel’s autobiography where he reflects on his Badlands-Cowboy days. He writes the following in 1913, 55 years old, 4 years after leaving the office of the ...
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The American Rustics
As I believe I have mentioned before, I am working on a book on various men of history titled something along the lines of “# Men of History: And the Character Every Man Should Cultivate.” The # will be the actual number of men in the book (originally it was going to be ...
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Dec 30, 2014
Creating a Yearly Retrospective with Start. Stop. Keep.
New Year’s resolutions are sooo last year! Really, creating resolutions, and inevitably breaking them, has become so cliché that it’s not even worth writing an article about. However, there is something to be gained by looking back on the last year and forward to the new year and thinking about how you have grown ...
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The History of Flannel (and Why Men Love It!)
“Man at his birth is content with a little milk and a piece of flannel; so we begin, then presently find kingdoms not enough for us.” – Seneca, Roman Philosopher, 4 BC-65 AD
There may be no apparel which so closely relates to manliness as flannel. A man clad in that thick ...
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Oct 22, 2014
Captains of Industry: Spencer and Ben Young of Sturdy Brothers
When I began writing the Captains of Industry article series, my hope was to find men who struck out on their own, took the road less traveled, and used their talents, passions, and manly perspiration and persistence to create a life for themselves and great products and services for others. The ...
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Fireside Topic: How have you handled unemployment?
“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” – Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. President, 1858-1919
Cesar Millan, better known as the Dog Whisperer, said that “Every dog needs a job to do.” Most of the dogs that we ...
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Jun 25, 2014
Fireside Topic: If you could choose any career what would it be?
It isn’t uncommon for men to get started down a career path that was once exciting and rewarding only to find that, years later, they don’t have the same passion for it they once did. While it isn’t wise to up and quit our job simply because it doesn’t thrill us like it once ...
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Captains of Industry: Brandon Griswold – Graphic Designer, Printmaker, & Author of Manly Marks
I came across Mr. Brandon Griswold and his Manly Marks book quite by accident. While searching for images for another article, I noticed one for a Manly Marks book. “What is this!?”, I immediately proclaimed to myself. The title and simple cover alone was worth a solid look. As it ...
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Fireside Topic: How do you manage money?
Do you have a realistic budget? Where does your income go? What are your views on debt? These questions and more can help you to determine how you manage money in this week's fireside topic.
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The Jack Pine Savage
I came across the term Jack Pine Savage in an old copy of The Professional Guide’s Manual (which is an excellent book) and just thought it sounded manly. However, when I began searching for more references to the term I couldn’t find much of anything. There isn’t even a Wikipedia article ...
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