Smiling In Hell 2.0 - Life After Retirement and then some Larry Peterson

Yes, it’s been almost two
months since I’ve allowed the growing umbrella of irrational thought,
unbelievable social-political-communal actions, reactions and, even more
important, inaction that have led to a number of head-shaking events that grabbed
my lower lip, pulled me painfully over the edge and back to this here keyboard.

Serendipity happens as my spousal best friend and I just finished watching the limited series “Rabbit Hole” starring Keifer Sutherland on Paramount+. Per IMDB, “Rabbit Hole is a
TV series about a private espionage operative who battles over the preservation of democracy in a world of surveillance, misinformation and manipulation.”

Along with preparing for and attending my 50th high school reunion, many of you readers and listeners know that I’ve actually completed writing my first novel and been somewhat actively pursuing, albeit without success, publication. Of course, being a first attempt at a book, I know that it is not perfect. So, before I continued to add to my stack of ‘thank you-no thank you’ letters, I decided to reach out to a few of my more literary friends and ask for some honest and constructive criticism.

It’s been a little tough on old team Peterson the last month or so and we’ve really proven that old adage about life.  You know the one … no one gets out alive.
Well, it’s sure true.

Aside from my writer’s ego being on life support right now, the girls and I recently lost a couple close members of our family. Along with that, my pending 50th high school reunion has reminded me of the good friends and fellow Northern High classmates that I’ve lost in the past year or so.  It’s not the brightest of subjects, but, like the rest of you, it’s not something we can avoid.  Like they say, no one gets out alive.

Sharing a little bit about a neat get-away my wife sharing a little bit about a neat get-away my wife and daughter enjoyed on a cruise down the Mexican Riviera over Spring Break. Yep, it’s time for another ‘Adventures in Travel.’  And, this time, it’s our Mexican Sojourn, otherwise known as …” Snorkeled Again!” and daughter enjoyed on a cruise down the Mexican Riviera over Spring Break. Yep, it’s time for another ‘Adventures in Travel.’  And, this time, it’s our Mexican Sojourn, otherwise known as …” Snorkeled Again!”

First seen here in this blogular arena way back April 2020, I RE-present a couple of excerpts from articles called “The Covid Conspiracy,” and “This Too Shall Pass” where I portended several theories regarding the whole Covid sxxt show for which I was all but tarred and feathered by folks who thought I was the love child of Hitler and Judas…if men could actually have babies. Which, of course, they can’t.