Articles by Pete McArdle

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Despite loving orchids, dry white wine, and Broadway show tunes, Pete McArdle is married and has three kids in college. When not drilling teeth, he enjoys torturing words, especially adverbs.

Some people say "If you have your health, you have everything," but oh, if you have 38 million dollars, you can have the Everything of Everything -- the real EVERYTHING -- and that's what Bjorn and Janet would say ...

Have you ever had one of these shopping experiences? Wait -- the Christmas shopping season is just around the corner ...

The occasion was special, the drink delicious, the fire so welcoming ... but there was a stranger there, too, and something about him was frightening ...

Wow, someone got a hookah under the tree...

Inexorable, inescapable, every fear that hides in the recesses of the mind ... one look around the corner away ...

He was a homeless man of little means; no where to go, no friend to talk to or give him comfort -- save one... the best one...

A brutal, unthinkable murder -- what sort of heartless monster could commit such a crime?

There's a very good reason for that little "Danger" tag that says, "Do Not Overinflate..."

Wanting everything you can get will get you into trouble as surely as will getting everything everything you want ... and maybe everything you deserve ...

"Waiter, waiter, there's a fly in my soup! ... May I have a second serving, please?"

Come visit the idyllic island of Boca Loca, where the natives are friendly, the weather is sublime ... and the seafood is to die for ...

Contrition, Confession, Penance ... just old-fashioned words from an old-fashioned religion -- not real words for real people. Or are they?

Here's a story about a dark and stormy night, about a lesson to be learned, about what you have in your hands even now ...

Heaven is full of joy, Hell is full of the opposite, but what do you call it when you feel nothing?

Maybe Norm should factor in the cost of fleeing the country as well ...

The Great Bear is all about justice -- but not so much on "learning curves."

This is where you find the words, the truth, the glory...

This editor is glad that the Foodie Channels don't have anything "special" on tonight...

Oh, so that's why they have such a problem...

Studies already show that older people who keep working are more likely to have a satisfying lifestyle...

Mmm! Guaranteed medical care!

A mask of burlap and buttons, a wig, or a scar may hide a person behind it, but it is the soul within we should see...

And if you had known them way back when, you'd have fallen for them, too!

The plan was risky, but something simply had to be done...

Makes you want to become a vegetarian...but wait, Bernardo was a vegetarian, wasn't he?

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