About Pete Schopen

I love to play Scrabble. Growing up on a farm in Nebraska, our winter days were long and weekends even longer. (Imagine your cable was out and you only had......

A few years ago, I visited my chiropractor because my back was killing me. I explained to him I hurt it in a client’s home. He asked me what had happened,......

My brother Drake, owner of Mid Central Pest Control in East Dundee, Ill., recently asked me to help train our nephew Eric for a few days. Eric and Drake wanted......

I was reading an interesting interview in Sports Illustrated (my second-favorite magazine) a few months ago with the much-maligned commissioner of baseball, Bud Selig. One thing caught my attention more than......

As told by Pete Schopen, owner of McHenry, Ill.-based Schopen Pest Solutions When I was 19 and working with my dad at Mid Central Pest Control, a short-tempered woman called......

You know the look: eyes pinched shut, hand on your stomach, sweat beading off your forehead. Are you nervous because there’s a bald-faced hornet nest the size of Jamaica on......

Bill Cosby once hosted a TV show called “Kids Say the Darndest Things.” My wife and I watched the show religiously. Mr. Cosby and the show’s producers would get kids......