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Grandpa

The slate grey winter sky hung low, perilously to the ground. The horizon seemed a million miles away, flat and plain and...

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Fire Good

You know those tests in women’s magazines? “Sex- how to know if you are satisfying your man in bed?” or “Sex- what he thinks he...

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Football & Best Friends

Walter Griffiths tried to kill me the first time we met. In 1968, when I was in seventh grade, I tried out...

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Fishing

The telephone rang. I answered it. It was my friend, Tony. “Hey man, are you still in the Doghouse, or...

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The Weekend

The day of dad’s Memorial Service was very long. I mean, funerals are already difficult enough to navigate for the socially awkward…...

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In Memory of my father, Carroll Lee-Roy Peterson.

I was raised by a real man in a time of real men. Now, that’s not to say I didn’t have a...

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Mr. Bidwell

In 1971, there was a local character in my neighborhood named, Mr. Bidwell, who walked to and from the little grocery on...

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The Dentist

There are four ways out of the DogHouse. You can be good- okay, we both know that’s not going to happen- you...

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Christmas 2009~ The Story of Sofia, Luke & Jake

Two thousand years ago, a child was born and it was a miracle. The child was Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the Son...

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The Carnivore

I have been good all week- that is to say, I haven’t screwed up any more than usual, but don’t get me...

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Billy Barker and the Cedar Trees

Billy Barker was a hapless child. Everybody knows one. Everybody grew up with one. He’s the kid whose head is misshapen, whose...

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Thanksgiving 2009

My telephone rang at 6:30 am. No one calls me at that hour except for two people and only for one of...

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Hell in the Pacific

Rule 8367:iig-a of the GENERAL GOVERNING RULES OF LIVING: subsection, C: of the FORTUNATE MEN Chapters: of the big book of the DHMF, (DogHouse...

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DogHouse Manifesto

Grandpa

Fire Good

Football & Best Friends

Fishing

The Weekend

In Memory of my father, Carroll Lee-Roy Peterson.

Mr. Bidwell

The Dentist

Christmas 2009~ The Story of Sofia, Luke & Jake

The Carnivore

Billy Barker and the Cedar Trees

Thanksgiving 2009

Hell in the Pacific

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