peter w. yaremko
@peterwyaremko.bsky.social
Author of four non-fiction books, a novel, poetry appearing in numerous literary magazines, publishes a weekly blog. Teaches how to write poetry to better manage emotional trauma.
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Speaking Art to Power
Within Russia, Swan Lake was for many years symbolic of political instability and upheaval. After the most recent invasion of Ukraine in 2022, it became code for protest against Putin and his war.
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What can we do in the face of power used for nefarious ends?
What a few affairs taught me about love.
What Is This Thing Called Love?
I had a friend who thought he’d fallen in love. He told his wife about it, thinking that would be the end of it and he would be on the midnight train to Georgia and a new life with the replacement sou...
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April 19, 2025 at 8:24 AM
What a few affairs taught me about love.
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There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers.
Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.
Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.
April 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers.
Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.
Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.
“Let’s make a deal, God.” In my new blog today.
The Report of My Death
I’ve gotten lots of reactions to my blog last week about death. People asking if my health is okay. Daughter sending me teardrop emojis. A friend writing: “At least your brain appears to still be func...
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April 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
“Let’s make a deal, God.” In my new blog today.
I'll conduct a one-day program April 8 to teach participants how to write poetry to better manage emotional traumas like grief, terminal illness, rupture of a relationship, loss of hope at Mercy by the Sea Conference Center, Madison, CT. $85 fee includes full lunch. Register: www.mercybythesea.org
March 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I'll conduct a one-day program April 8 to teach participants how to write poetry to better manage emotional traumas like grief, terminal illness, rupture of a relationship, loss of hope at Mercy by the Sea Conference Center, Madison, CT. $85 fee includes full lunch. Register: www.mercybythesea.org
What can we do in the face of power used for nefarious ends?
Speaking Art to Power
Within Russia, Swan Lake was for many years symbolic of political instability and upheaval. After the most recent invasion of Ukraine in 2022, it became code for protest against Putin and his war.
pametriverbooks.com
March 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
What can we do in the face of power used for nefarious ends?
How to deal with the firehose of new traumas that assail us every day.
When We Lose Our Reflection
In his journal entry of February 16, 1965, Thomas Merton said we “desperately” depend on recognition by other people to convince ourselves of our own existence. Is this why we fear death so much? Beca...
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March 1, 2025 at 6:44 AM
How to deal with the firehose of new traumas that assail us every day.
The best approach to scary times.
Tuck in Your Chin
He burst into the tiny Amish schoolhouse on a crisp October morning in 2006. The young female teacher ran to summon state troopers. He ordered the boys to get out. Then he shot the girls. All ten of t...
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February 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The best approach to scary times.
I'm celebrating two years of sobriety today!
February 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I'm celebrating two years of sobriety today!
I may have been a functioning drunk most of my adult life -- until two years ago today. I write about it in my new Substack story, "My Dance with Demon Rum."
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PETER W. YAREMKO | Substack
Author of five non-fiction books and a novel, poetry that appears in numerous literary magazines, publishes a weekly blog. Teaches trauma victims to write healing poetry.
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February 5, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I may have been a functioning drunk most of my adult life -- until two years ago today. I write about it in my new Substack story, "My Dance with Demon Rum."
peterwyaremko.substack.com/p/my-dance-w...
peterwyaremko.substack.com/p/my-dance-w...
George Bernard Shaw speaks to Trump from the grave: "You use a mirror to see your face. You use art to see your soul."
Trump Dissolves Arts Committee Previously Restored by Biden
The disbanding of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities came amid a flurry of executive orders touching on art, culture and history.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
George Bernard Shaw speaks to Trump from the grave: "You use a mirror to see your face. You use art to see your soul."
I changed my domain name from @they-man to @peterwyaremko, which is my full name. "they-man" made no sense!
February 4, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I changed my domain name from @they-man to @peterwyaremko, which is my full name. "they-man" made no sense!
PETER’s Substack
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PETER’s Substack | PETER W. YAREMKO | Substack
My personal Substack. Click to read PETER’s Substack, by PETER W. YAREMKO, a Substack publication. Launched 6 hours ago.
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February 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM
PETER’s Substack
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I would like to know how many FBI agents voted for Trump, believing he was the law-and-order candidate.
February 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I would like to know how many FBI agents voted for Trump, believing he was the law-and-order candidate.
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This poem needs to be posted every day. We’re now living it and it should make every American sick about where we are.
February 2, 2025 at 1:57 AM
This poem needs to be posted every day. We’re now living it and it should make every American sick about where we are.
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February 1, 2025
February 1, 2025
Throughout now-president Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, it was clear that his support was coming from three very different factions whose only shared ideology was a determination to destroy the federal...
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February 2, 2025 at 6:49 AM
February 1, 2025
At 4 o'clock this morning I woke up & read historian Heather Cox Richardson's analysis of recent autocratic events in Washington & I became officially frightened.
February 2, 2025 at 10:46 AM
At 4 o'clock this morning I woke up & read historian Heather Cox Richardson's analysis of recent autocratic events in Washington & I became officially frightened.
I no longer plan to be active on Facebook in protest over its recent actions to cut back on fact-checking. Please find me on BlueSky for my blog posts, personal updates, and commentary. @they-man.bsky.social
February 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I no longer plan to be active on Facebook in protest over its recent actions to cut back on fact-checking. Please find me on BlueSky for my blog posts, personal updates, and commentary. @they-man.bsky.social
From a guy with no friends, here's an idea on how to fix that without using an online app. In my new blog today.
Changing the Context
“I don’t know why I’m here,” I shocked my fellow participants at celebrity author Mark Nepo’s seminar on the power of friendship last weekend. “I don’t have any friends.”
pametriverbooks.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:32 AM
From a guy with no friends, here's an idea on how to fix that without using an online app. In my new blog today.
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January 31, 2025
January 31, 2025
On February 1, 1862, in the early days of the Civil War, the Atlantic Monthly published Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic,” summing up the cause of freedom for which the United States tro...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
February 1, 2025 at 6:32 AM
January 31, 2025
Saving Ukraine is in our own best interest, according to Conservative leading light George F. Will: wapo.st/40D4h0H
Opinion | Counting up the costs if the U.S. chooses to lose in Ukraine
Yes, by all means, Secretary of State Marco Rubio should be “realistic” about Ukraine. Let’s win.
wapo.st
January 31, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Saving Ukraine is in our own best interest, according to Conservative leading light George F. Will: wapo.st/40D4h0H
I've unhooked from FB pametriverbooks.com/blog/f/the-h... because Zuck dialed back fact-checking AND will pay $25 million to redeem himself for suspending Trump’s accounts after the Jan 6 insurrection. Please follow me on BlueSky for my blog posts, updates & comments. I am @they-man.bsky.social.
January 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I've unhooked from FB pametriverbooks.com/blog/f/the-h... because Zuck dialed back fact-checking AND will pay $25 million to redeem himself for suspending Trump’s accounts after the Jan 6 insurrection. Please follow me on BlueSky for my blog posts, updates & comments. I am @they-man.bsky.social.
My 16 steps to Facebook detox.
The Happy Un-Hooker
I’ve been a Facebook subscriber since January 25, 2009, mostly as a way to promote my corporate communication agency, Executive Media. On January 25, 2025, I will unhook from that shameful social medi...
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January 11, 2025 at 10:43 AM
My 16 steps to Facebook detox.
In my new blog: how to handle fear minus the deep breathing. pametriverbooks.com/blog/f/be-no...
Be Not Afraid
I don’t know about you but I’m not comfortable cursing my enemies by asking God to “break their teeth” or “dash their children against the rocks.” But that’s what too much of the Book of Psalms does.
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November 25, 2024 at 12:12 PM
In my new blog: how to handle fear minus the deep breathing. pametriverbooks.com/blog/f/be-no...