by PJColando | Jul 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
Am I the only person in America who recalls the nightly news coverage when Senior Citizens rocked the Speaker of the House’s car? Escalating their jeers and boos and showing off their rock hard power? The year was 1989, over 25 years ago, but I was...
by PJColando | Jun 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
Friends share secrets, feeling safe in the hearts and minds, that acceptance with be theirs, no matter what. Each of us has a few, one of them being our Father. But, but, but, but: have you ever repressed a truth? Not a fib, a flub, or white lie, but a lapse, really....
by PJColando | Jun 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
“Kill your darlings” is literary gospel, a ubiquitous phrase that commands action upon one’s prose. Cut, kill, slash, rewrite. Trim the superfluous flab. Popularized in novel and screenwriting guides in the ’90s, it’s been ascribed to...
by PJColando | Jun 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
My husband and I are not obsessive text-tweet-selfie-posting fools. When we vacation, we unplug. In today’s vernacular the term is off-grid: no emails, no postcards, no phone home. We liberate ourselves from the entrapments of daily life and self-interest to...
by PJColando | Jun 7, 2016 | blog post, rant
Charlie Brown used to be a media star, someone that everyone knew and talked about. He was hapless and made us smile. We saw a bit of ourselves in him. Now it’s Harambe, a Three-year-old Boy, and the Boy’s momma whose voice is heard on the endless iPhone...
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