Peter's Blog

So, how are your New Year’s resolutions going? Mine are going fantastic! I didn’t make any.

‘Tis the season for Christmas specials. I’m not going to lie – even as a grown man, I love watching Christmas specials. Snoopy decorating his dog house. The Grinch folding up the Christmas tree like an umbrella and stuffing it up the chimney. And Frosty the snowman melting in the greenhouse.

There are a lot of great places you can buy gold jewelry. And then there are some places you should absolutely not buy gold jewelry.

So, did you hit the Black Friday sales Friday morning? That’s an emphatic “No!” for me. You’d have to just about give away stuff for free to lure me out on Black Friday. No thanks. Too peoplely!

A story I ran across a couple of weeks ago provides an opportunity to make fun of all kinds of people, from a silver thief, to a silver buyer, to a really bad writer who somehow managed to land a job writing web stories for a local TV station.

Have you heard the latest news on the fake debt-ceiling fight? The Senate has approved a measure to kick the can down the road a couple of months. So, the “fight” will continue! The $480 billion increase raises the debt limit to $28.9 trillion, but that’s only going to last until Dec. 3. That means […]

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could just talk and your words would alter reality? It would elevate you to superhero status — or super-villain depending on your propensity to use your power for good or evil. You know, there’s a real-life person who at least appears to have this superpower.

When I walk the beach, I look for sharks’ teeth. Over the years, I’ve developed a pretty good eye for them. In fact, I’ve filled an entire lamp with sharks’ teeth. Not too long ago, I was walking the beach with my son and there were no sharks’ teeth to be found. Frustrated, I told […]

Labor day is a weird holiday. We celebrate working people by — not working. If labor is so great, shouldn’t we celebrate by doing more of it?

I have some sobering news for you. Politicians lie. No, no, not just the politicians you don’t like. I mean pretty much all of them – with a few rare exceptions. It’s like part of the political DNA.