TMC Administration Notes - April/May 2005

Letter from the Chair

Greetings everyone. Spring is here, sort of, and it seems like the desire to hibernate can be shrugged off. One of the benefits of living around four seasons, I think, is to experience the cycles of nature.

Most of us tend toward routines that hypnotically lead to an ignorance of those inner voices that ask us to widen our perspective on things. In terms of our health that's a set up for problems.

We've all gone through high stress times when we might have wondered, in morbid facination, what was going to break down first; our body, our mind, or our spirit.

I think the Men's Center usually gets THE CALL during those times. We continue to be an important resource year round come rain, snow, or sleet of life. Numbers are up over this past year for support group attendance.

Answering your inner call to reach out is a good thing. Best not to wait until you’re frozen or fully baked.

Live long and prosper,
Bob Eng,
Board Chair

Library Corner

–– Don Jensen, Librarian

Using the library is a membership privilege. To check out a book, all you have to do is write your name. phone number, and the date on a checkout card and leave it in the box. Or just come in and browse – you will be surprised at how stimulating it can be to expose yourself to the books in our collection. So come on in and take a look.

We have a new book, thanks to Francis, Men Freeing Men - Exploring the Myth of the Traditional Male, edited by Francis Baumli, Ph.D. We also have many periodicals and newsletters for your use:

  • Men's Health
  • Voice Male
  • Lavender
  • Men's Journal
  • Transitions - Nov/Dec 2004 - The
    Invisible Victims of Domestic Violence
  • Rainbow Families
  • Bi All Means
  • Wellness Journal
  • The Edge
  • Everyman
  • D.A.D.S.#1

Please be sure you use the library check-out system. And if you have overdue books, please return them so others can benefit from them.

Enjoy your library!

Library Books Lost

We have a free and trusting lending library policy -- in exchange, men who borrow books must return them. Have you borrowed one of the books on this list? If they have been helpful to you, they will be helpful to other men. Please make the effort to return them to the Men's Center library. Thanks!

Raising Boys
The Inner Male
Why Can't Men Grow Up?
The Inoffensive Gay Manual
Is It Love or Is It Addiction?
The Verbally Abusive Relationship
Basic Writings
Man to Man
The Hours
Tim and Pete
Men on Divorce
How to Work for a Jerk
101 Men's Health Secrets
Get Rid of that Gut
Taking Care After 50
Quiet Strength Meditations...
Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood
McGill Report on Male Intimacy
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say
The Men's Book
The Sexpert
Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos
The Bisexual Option
Book of Guys
Father & Child Reunion
Male Menopause
If You Really Love Me
Meditations From the Road
Father's Rights
The Myth of Male Power


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