Petersburg Pilot -

Live life on our own terms

To the Editor:

The greatest joy of living where we do is the opportunity to live life on our own terms. Here we can walk up to the blackjack table or the roulette wheel or the gillnet drum or the longline gurdy and say, "Ok, pal, this is how it's going to go. I'm betting it all on black. Everything. But I'm spinning the wheel."

"Sir, that's not how it's done."

"That's how it's done this time. So back off, buddy."

Sometimes we win, sometimes we lose, but the fame and the infamy are our own.

Bob Nilsen understood that. He lived on his own terms.

As a community, as a...