Boys to Men
I was born and raised in Southern Ohio. The family farm was the centerpiece of my formative years. Uncles, Aunts, Grandparents, a Great...
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Dr. Ted Klontz
Feb 20, 20194 min read
Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Feed Me…….?
From the song, “When I’m 64”, by the Beatles. Ah, the Beatles, maybe they are to blame. My parents warned me about them. A friend of...
Dr. Ted Klontz
Jan 25, 20193 min read
Do You See What I See?
That’s the question that the old Christmas carol asks. If you would, before you read any further, please go to YouTube, and bring up and...
Dr. Ted Klontz
Dec 28, 20183 min read
Happy Holidays?
I was talking with a friend recently and she mentioned that though she had designed every aspect of her holiday season, she felt...
Dr. Ted Klontz
Nov 25, 20185 min read
Domestic Violence
I’ve been examining what got and has kept me so motivated, so agitated, so troubled over the last few years. In ways that are new for me....
Dr. Ted Klontz
Oct 26, 20185 min read
What My Father Taught Me
First, I would like to thank the people who so lovingly supported me in the ways that work best for me during my recent medical adventure....
Dr. Ted Klontz
Sep 28, 20186 min read
Edward
The first day we ever spoke, Edward (not his real name) and I passed by each other as I was leaving the YMCA gym and he was just...
Dr. Ted Klontz
Aug 24, 20187 min read
An Inside Job
In my last newsletter, I spoke of recently being diagnosed with what has turned out to be a “difficult to treat”, squamous skin cancer...
Dr. Ted Klontz
Jul 21, 20186 min read
Thoughts and Prayers
In early June I noticed a sore on the inside of my ear that for the past several months would heal, then open and heal again. I finally...
Dr. Ted Klontz
Jun 23, 20187 min read
Tell Me Why?
With the recent suicides of two very famous, very public figures, I’ve been asked more than once, how I make sense of what they did. As a...
Dr. Ted Klontz
May 17, 20184 min read
The Labyrinth: Birth and Death
After one of my recent “Touching Mortality” workshops, one of the participants suggested that I write about something I had briefly...
Dr. Ted Klontz
Apr 13, 20184 min read
Bittersweet Notes From the Road
Just leaving a pal’s house, let’s call him Jo. I met him 30 years ago. He was a rock star in my world. He’d been handpicked to work with...
Dr. Ted Klontz
Mar 16, 20184 min read
Act As If: Cambridge, England
A young man I’ll call Carl who had just completed a listening seminar I’d conducted for the Gates Scholars at Cambridge University, came...
Dr. Ted Klontz
Feb 2, 20189 min read
Grandfather, What Did You Do?
An Accounting A long, long time ago, I was teaching a class called “Pre-Colonial American History.” I was sharing with the class...
Dr. Ted Klontz
Dec 27, 20175 min read
What Harassment?
A while back I attended a gathering of several thousand people and I was clearly in the minority. There may have been a dozen other men...
Dr. Ted Klontz
Nov 30, 20173 min read
Made-Up
I recently was invited to help a friend who was to be featured on a television program that would be reaching millions of people. It was...
Dr. Ted Klontz
Oct 26, 20177 min read
To Do List
Over the last few months, I have received several questions along the lines of “So what are YOU doing about these things that you seem to...
Dr. Ted Klontz
Sep 29, 20177 min read
Harold
I wrote this story a few years back. Over the last few months as I have been trying to figure out what I might do to help make things...
Dr. Ted Klontz
Aug 29, 20174 min read
War Is Not The Answer
I was recently asked to do a Sunday morning talk for the local Friends Church (more commonly known as the Quakers). The instructions...
Dr. Ted Klontz
Jul 28, 20173 min read
Sometimes It Takes A While
It was about a year ago when I sat as a guest in a Lakota healing ceremony. During that ceremony I listened as an elder talked to several...
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