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Author Archives: peter
Hyundai Humiliation
My Hyundai recently broke, as Hyundais are wont to do. Admittedly, mine is not a spectacular vehicle. It cannot accelerate or slow itself with any haste; it is neither shiny nor safe. Inside, it is formless and beige, like a … Continue reading
Posted in Rants
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Cat Sadness
Last night, while hauling out an ammonia-reeking garbage bag brimming full of cat excrement, I began to regret ever having welcomed the wretched beasts into our home. For those unfamiliar with the details of my life for some reason, my … Continue reading
The War Lovers by Evan Thomas
I recently affirmed my literacy by reading The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 by historian and Newsweek editor Evan Thomas. The book is a study of America’s headlong rush into the 1898 Spanish-American War, … Continue reading
Posted in Scholarly Reviews
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My Growth Into a Responsible Adult
Come and gaze with me into the past, specifically my past, where the emotions are potent and the fashions are inerrant. Picture, if you will, the heady days of the Carter administration. The sweetly unnatural strains of the Bee Gees … Continue reading
Posted in Meh
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Big Apple Teens & Me
I recently agreed to chaperone some of my graduating students to Manhattan this June for their senior trip, a tradition at my school. Here’s the situation: 25 teenagers, flush with academic success and the finality of high school, pockets engorged … Continue reading
Posted in Meh
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On Having Two Kids
By now all of you know that I’m the father of two children. (If you didn’t know this, please leave this website and delete your browser history.) They are lovely kids, as children go. The older one likes to jump … Continue reading
Posted in Sincerity
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