I am Pyo Merez. I am 45 years old, a husband, a father, and the founder of Gentsways.
I did not start this site because I read a book about men’s lifestyle blogging. I started it because of a man I watched my entire life, a man who never had to announce what he was, because everything about how he lived made it undeniable.
That man was my father, Dee Clement.
My Father Made Me Build This
My father was a chemist. He opened his pharmacy shop in the 1980s and ran it until he passed in 2018, becoming, to the people who relied on him, something close to the neighbourhood’s health saviour.
But the shop was only half of who he was. He was an academic at heart, and he spent his spare time teaching his own children directly.
English with The New First Aid in English. Arithmetic with The New General Mathematics. Faith with My Book of Bible Stories.
And the bigger questions of life with a book called Life: Where Did It Begin, By Evolution or Creation.
He never argued. He never quarrelled. He never raised his voice, never raised his hand, not once.
And yet we, his children, understood every instruction, every boundary, every value he wanted to pass on.
He did not enforce them. He modeled them, in the shop, at the kitchen table, in how he treated every person who walked through his door with quiet, genuine respect.
People simply responded to him. They straightened up, listened, and wanted to be around him.
I watched him my whole life and did not fully understand what he was doing until I was grown.
He was living with intention every single day. Not performing it, but living it.
Every day with him was fulfilling, not because anything dramatic happened, but because he showed up, consistently, as a teacher, a provider, and a man of conviction.
I miss him. He was the best father any man could ask for. And everything I write on this site is my attempt to pass on what he gave me to men who may never have had someone like him in their corner.
Gentsways is built in his honour, to extend my father’s teaching to men who weren’t lucky enough to have a father like him.
What I Believe About Men
I am not here to tell men to be harder or softer. I am not here to win an argument about what masculinity should mean.
I believe this: a self-aware man, who acts from principle rather than emotion, who takes care of his body and his relationships and his appearance with the same quiet discipline, that man has peace. And he gives peace to everyone around him.
I have seen it. My father was that man.
I am 45. I am still learning and correcting. Still trying to close the gap between the man I am and the man I know I can be.
That is what I write from, not a position of having figured it all out, but a position of taking it seriously. Of choosing, every day, to live with intention rather than reaction.
That is what I want for the men who read Gentsways, men who grow up without regrets, the way my father did, men who believe in something every day rather than drifting through life without conviction.
What I Write About
I write about every area of a man’s life that matters, because they all connect.
Style and how you present yourself. Grooming and self-care. Fitness and health, especially for men over fifty.
Relationships, romance, etiquette, and the social intelligence that makes a man someone others trust and respect.
Personal development, not the motivational poster kind, but the real, uncomfortable, daily kind.
Career? A man’s work is not just how he earns; it is how he builds. We cover how to pursue meaningful work, grow with purpose, and lead without losing yourself in the process.
Fatherhood and parenting. I write about what it means to raise children not through rules and force, but through the daily example of a man who has done the inner work.
Masculinity and what it actually looks like when it is healthy. Not loud, not aggressive, not performed. Healthy masculinity is a man who is secure enough to be calm, consistent enough to be trusted, and self-aware enough to keep growing.
Health and fitness are also important topics covered. We only remind men of what medical science has already said with verifiable personal experiences.
Aging with no regrets, particularly for older men, who the internet has largely abandoned.
Men in their fifties, sixties, and seventies who are still vital, still curious, still growing, and who deserve far better guidance than they usually get.
I give that subject special attention. Partly because of my father. And partly because I am heading there myself.
My Background
I’m a chemical engineer by training. I studied Chemical Engineering at the Institute of Management and Technology, graduating in 2005.
That training shaped how I think, not just about chemistry, but about problems generally: breaking things down to their actual mechanism rather than accepting the surface explanation.
I’m also a graphic designer by trade, designing books, ebooks, physical print materials, and flyers.
That same structural way of thinking, the engineer’s instinct to test whether something actually holds up, paired with a designer’s eye for how something is presented, is what shapes how I approach every article on Gentsways.
A Note on Credentials
I am not a certified personal trainer. I am not a licensed therapist. I am not a fashion designer or a nutritionist.
What I am is a chemical engineer and graphic designer by trade, a man who thinks seriously about these things, reads widely, observes, and writes honestly.
Every article on Gentsways is thoroughly researched. Where science and expert opinion support the guidance, I cite it.
Where personal experience, mine or my father Dee Clement’s, shapes the perspective, I say so plainly.
I believe honesty about what you know, and what you do not, is itself a form of integrity.
It’s the same standard my engineering training held me to: don’t claim certainty you haven’t earned, and don’t skip the step of checking your work.
My father would not have had it any other way.
Connect with Me
I write for men who are paying attention to their lives. If that is you, I am glad you are here.
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