Author: Peter

I think we all hate paying taxes even if we understand their utmost merit and value to us all as a society. I know that my taxes pay for the roads that I travel every single day to get to work, as well as the bridge I cross to reach my parents’ house across the […]

I don’t remember if my sciatic nerve injury in my back happened all in one day, or over the course of two years. By the end of college, I started getting pain after standing on my feet for extended periods of time. In contrast, I used to work 10 hours shifts in a kitchen during […]

I had to give up on drinking after I barely squeaked by in undergraduate school. It was a sheer miracle that I was accepted into my dream grad school program and took it as a chance at a new start. I wouldn’t get all of the second chances I got during my first four years […]

My town exploded in population after the economy slowly rebounded in the early 2010s. Prior to that, many of our citizens left when factories were shut down and taken overseas after the 1960s. Recently one of the biggest factors in people moving here has been the football stadium that was built next to one of […]

It’s hard budgeting for my tax bill every year because I never seem to break even with the various contract gigs I complete from month to month. A lot of my friends look forward to their tax refunds at the beginning of the year, but I’m constantly wondering if I’ll have a bill like I […]

I will never forget what it was like 30 years ago when people were still smoking indoors at a large number of indoor venues. Decades before that, passengers smoked cigarettes on airplanes of all places! The thought of that nowadays is terrifying, as I’d constantly worry that the fire would ignite the oxygen in the […]

All you have to do is put the cartridges in with your keys at the TSA booth while heading through the security checkpoint at the entrance of your terminal After switching employers, I still do what I’m passionate about but now I get to travel out of state three to four times a month. I […]