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Peter Arango

Calvin Coollidge’s Presidential Pets

Nov 27, 2022

Nov 27, 2022

A Grateful Climate Migrant’s Confession

The frost is on the pumpkin, leaves are on the ground, and our flower beds remind me that beauty is ephemeral; the loveliest blooms droop…

Nov 24, 2022

Nov 24, 2022

How much can Bronny James earn before he enrolls … somewhere?

Bronny James now has a net worth of 4.6 million dollars. It’ll come in handy, I’m sure, as he is a senior in high school with the expenses…

Nov 23, 2022

Nov 23, 2022

Finding Book Friends and Befriending Books

I believe in love at first sight, sense of humor in dogs, and the rare experience of finding a true book friend. Maybe not so rare, as I…

Nov 23, 2022

Nov 23, 2022

If You Go Out In The Woods Today — Bears in Simsbury, Connecticut

OK, writing about bears in our town of Simsbury, Connecticut is like writing about snow on Mount Rainier. Rainier gets about 59 feet of…

Aug 9, 2022

Aug 9, 2022

Still America’s Pastime

I like Michael Wilbon’s measured good humor in responding to what are meant to be inflammatory subjects. Here’s his take on the…

Aug 8, 2022

Aug 8, 2022

A Tentative Fungo In A Field of Surmise

I’d like to report that meetings of the faculty in schools such as those in which I worked are universally compelling, but if they are, and…

Feb 12, 2022

A Tentative Fungo In A Field of Surmise

Feb 12, 2022

Breaking News! M&M’s creates a world where everyone belongs!

In 2016 the universe coughed up a national smorgasbord of shame and pain, a cataclysmic upending of truth, justice, and the American way…

Jan 25, 2022

Breaking News! M&M’s creates a world where everyone belongs!

Jan 25, 2022

The Regurgitator

Looking back is always a bit dicey, and having come through the year we’ve just endured, the first instinct is not to open the treasure…

Sep 11, 2021

Sep 11, 2021

Life In Review One Box At A Time

I’d like to report that I have been fully present and entirely mindful throughout the course of a lifetime, that my progress is a journey…

Aug 29, 2021

Life In Review One Box At A Time

Aug 29, 2021

Did He Say Murdered?

So, I’m sitting in a pre-operation cubicle as a designated driver and pre-operation emotional support cheerleader, aware of the bustle…

Aug 15, 2021

Did He Say Murdered?

Aug 15, 2021

The Disney Version: Fooled Me

Reasoned civility is suggested in these troubled times, but decisions affecting millions of lives continue to boggle the mind. More and…

Jul 22, 2021

The Disney Version: Fooled Me

Jul 22, 2021

Whose Flag?

It’s Complicated

Jul 15, 2021

Jul 15, 2021

My Wife Lost Her Memory … For A While

“I don’t know why I’m here.”

Jun 4, 2021

My Wife Lost Her Memory … For A While

Jun 4, 2021

Memorial Day 2021 — Remembering Port Chicago

Some years ago, Ken Stewart, a longtime friend and filmmaker was kind enough to ask me what I was likely to take on in my next play. I’d…

Jun 4, 2021

Jun 4, 2021

We All Smell The Same When We’re Dead

I’m an introvert and should remember that I’ll start to numb out somewhere in the first minutes of the second hour, but I forget just how…

Jun 1, 2021

We All Smell The Same When We’re Dead

Jun 1, 2021

Alive and unconscious … who doesn’t love sleep?

May 28, 2021

Alive and unconscious … who doesn’t love sleep?

May 28, 2021

Never A Cross Word

I am a creature of habit.

May 26, 2021

Never A Cross Word

May 26, 2021

The Coming Climate Crisis … Oh, You Meant Now

My granddaughter has a new game. She sets out her family of stuffed animals, arranges them in a row, and tells them to get ready to…

Apr 25, 2021

The Coming Climate Crisis … Oh, You Meant Now

Apr 25, 2021

Mank’s A Mess

Near the end of Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil, a world weary Marlene Dietrich greets a bloated Welles: “You should lay off the candy bars ……

Mar 26, 2021

Mank’s A Mess

Mar 26, 2021

Peter Arango

Peter Arango

I’m the author of four novels and America’s Best Kept College Secrets, a retired teacher of the humanities, eclectic reader, and prisoner of popular culture.

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