by PJColando | Jul 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
33, 000 miles on the odometer. We had driven 1000 of those miles in a week’s trek through Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. In a powder blue Crown Victoria with a trunk large enough to transport Jimmy Hoffa’s body as well as our minimal luggage. It was the...
by PJColando | Jul 29, 2013 | In the Pink, Purpose
1. I am a Blue Butt. 2. But I’m not what you think. 3. I am a crossbreed of Hampshire and Yorkshire Pigs. 4. I wallow in puddles and baths of mud 5. But not for reasons you think. 6. I don’t perspire to release body heat. I need to maintain my cool 7....
by PJColando | Jul 24, 2013 | In the Pink, Purpose
A few years ago I experienced dissolution of a family that I thought I’d had. I mourned and felt terrible – until I remembered my favorite Beatle, Paul. He was the odd man out in the dissolution of the Fab Four, the apparent lone ranger like me....
by PJColando | Jul 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
Sigh. If you ever want to wave a conversational red flag in my face, just say “they” did it or said or thought it. Be ready, for I will ask you, “Who are ‘they’?” I rise forth from a lifetime of blame from a tattletailing little sis...
by PJColando | Jul 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
It’s 6:45 p.m…6:53, and then it’s 7:00 sharp, the time we planned to meet. I’m sitting in my BMW, soothing my neurotic apprehension with hits from the ‘80s on Sirius. The moon is smiling aloft on this typically faint-starred night. The light bleed of the human mass...
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