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Observer Columnist Jeff PetersenOn Second Thought finds humor in hardship, seasoned by Jeff Petersen’s quirky look at life. Petersen knows it’s harder to make people laugh than cry. Most times he aims to make people laugh. Sometimes he makes readers cry. Occasionally, he even makes readers think. In any case, this enthusiastic contrarian gives readers a column squeezed for freshness every other Tuesday in The Observer.
May 17, 2013 12:04 pm The unbearable lightness of perfect
May 10, 2013 11:44 am Cloudy with a chance of swearing
April 26, 2013 10:23 am Shocking the grass into submission
April 12, 2013 09:51 am Night owls rule, morning people yawn
April 05, 2013 12:21 pm Life at the end of the road
March 29, 2013 10:50 am Steller’s jay does spot-on hawk imitation
March 22, 2013 02:13 pm Dance like no one’s watching
March 11, 2013 11:07 am Adventures of Lewis and Cork
March 04, 2013 10:16 am Driveway was a work of art
February 25, 2013 10:29 am Grief group provides support
February 08, 2013 03:12 pm Painting with a broad brush
January 29, 2013 09:50 am Drugs cause 100-bike pileup
January 18, 2013 09:30 am The material girl: we reap what we sew
January 11, 2013 11:00 am A crash course in man’s finiteness
January 02, 2013 10:08 am Facing the 2013 storm head on
December 26, 2012 10:55 am The best Christmas present ever
December 14, 2012 09:49 am Dreaming of a green Christmas
November 30, 2012 02:00 pm Imagination takes flight with boomerang
November 26, 2012 02:38 pm A not so Civil War: 5 yards in a cloud of mud
November 16, 2012 02:04 pm Time travel: How to turn November into July in three hours
November 09, 2012 03:31 pm Red county in a blue state: The politics of the disenfranchised
November 02, 2012 02:46 pm Let there be darkness: Time to fall back
October 19, 2012 02:41 pm A place where people do the right thing, just because
October 10, 2012 03:08 pm Check your blood pressure
September 28, 2012 09:35 am In search of Nanaimo bars
September 19, 2012 12:04 pm 2012: Year of the wedding
June 13, 2012 03:51 pm The first grass-fed beef ever
June 06, 2012 02:20 pm Welcome to Juneuary
June 01, 2012 09:38 am Advancing years
May 24, 2012 01:52 pm I’ll Have Another
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