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Wow, it’s another new year! Now that 2022 has ended, I feel like it passed by faster than normal. I know it was 365 days long, just like any other non-leap year, but the whole year seemed to go by faster. I can’t point to anything in particular that makes me feel like...

I was watching a Sunday afternoon baseball game when I realized the regular season is two-thirds over. The Yankees, Astros and Dodgers have huge leads in their divisions so unless they have late-season meltdowns, they’re likely to be their division winners...

A new blog for a new year. And with it, a newly designed website. There wasn’t anything wrong with the old website but I thought it could use some refreshing. I asked my web designer, ILWebStudios, to give it a facelift. I like the result. A bed of autumn leaves and a stack of books...

Welcome to my website. I’m Jay Henry Peterson and this is the first blog I’ve ever written. Before now I didn’t have a good reason to write one. I hope to use a blog to better communicate with those who might want to read the stories I’ve published and those I plan to...

It’s been more than a year since I wrote a blog. Some readers have asked when I would write another one. That long drought wasn’t intended. When I wrote that blog my intention was to write one every two or three months. The frequency would be partly determined by the...

A friend once told me that writing a blog was easy. All you have to do, he said, is sit down at a computer, put your fingers on the keyboard and write what you think people are interested in reading. He claimed it was easier than writing a book because a blog is a lot...