Pieces to Peter's Puzzling World Archives - Audacity Magazine https://www.audacitymagazine.com/category/opinion/audacity-columnists/pieces-to-peters-puzzling-world/ Lifestyle Magazine for the Physically Disabled Mon, 31 May 2021 20:28:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Synchronicity https://www.audacitymagazine.com/synchronicity/ Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:09:43 +0000 http://www.audacitymagazine.com/?p=346 “Synchronicity” means things that happen at the same time but have no clear relationship to each other. While I’d been working on this month’s column, I heard from Nathasha asking ...

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]]> A Journey Through Reading https://www.audacitymagazine.com/a-journey-through-reading/ Sun, 25 Feb 2007 15:17:03 +0000 http://www.audacitymagazine.com/?p=349 The spoiler on this month’s column is this: it’s about some books I recently read and, well, loved. Perfect for Valentine’s Day, sort of. Being rather immobilized the last three ...

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]]> My Health Cracks Me Up! https://www.audacitymagazine.com/my-health-cracks-me-up/ Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:21:16 +0000 http://www.audacitymagazine.com/?p=352 Where have I been, what day is it, and why do I have this silly- looking velcro and nylon brace on my leg? Maybe it has something to do with ...

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]]> Facing The Monsters https://www.audacitymagazine.com/facing-the-monsters/ Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:23:25 +0000 http://www.audacitymagazine.com/?p=354 “Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.” – Bertrand Russell We ...

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]]> Sundance https://www.audacitymagazine.com/sundance/ Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:25:11 +0000 http://www.audacitymagazine.com/?p=356 “You’re in denial!” — “I am not!” — “See, that proves it!” It’s been a rigorous month and I’m glad it’s over. I’m glad it happened the way it did. ...

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]]> A Lesson in Humility https://www.audacitymagazine.com/a-lesson-in-humility/ Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:27:31 +0000 http://www.audacitymagazine.com/?p=358 We vacationed in the region of British Columbia called the west Kootenays. Geographically, it’s part of the Columbia River system, and is across the border from eastern Washington and northern ...

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]]> Who Is Really Free? https://www.audacitymagazine.com/who-is-really-free/ Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:02:44 +0000 http://www.audacitymagazine.com/?p=485 Freedom is easy to talk about, easy to write about—but very difficult to live. Freedom. Fourth of July. Originally to celebrate the Declaration of Independence, our national freedom from England… ...

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]]> Necessary Getaway! https://www.audacitymagazine.com/necessary-getaway/ Sun, 25 Jun 2006 15:28:50 +0000 http://www.audacitymagazine.com/?p=360 By the time this column goes on-line at Audacity, we hope to be in Vancouver, B.C. for a few days, and then over in eastern British Columbia for a week ...

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]]> The Awakening https://www.audacitymagazine.com/the-awakening/ Sat, 17 Jun 2006 15:38:20 +0000 http://www.audacitymagazine.com/?p=370 I am, for reasons I’ll try to explain, anti-authoritarian. You know the bumper sticker, “Question Authority.” Authority offers systems: think, act, dress, eat, live, this way: everything will be OK ...

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