by PJColando | Jul 21, 2015 | Uncategorized
Clique: a small group of people, with shared interests or other features in common, who spend time together and do not readily allow others to join them. Ms. Gen-X smiled and said, “My generation doesn’t do cliques.” I nearly melted into my shoes. My...
by PJColando | Jul 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
“One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small”… Who recalls that song opener delivered in the hauntingly soaring voice of Grace Slick? Loved her personna, truly slick and surreal. Click and hear it now: “The ones that Mother gives...
by PJColando | Jul 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
My first exercise class was belly dancing at the YWCA in Valparaiso, Indiana – in the ’70s. Yes, you read that right: in Middle America not the Middle East. I still have the belt, though it fits more like a necklace than a hip-hugger these days....
by PJColando | Jul 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
Dr. Robin Berman, a UCLA psychiatrist, is making the media rounds in support of her book, Permission to Parent: How to Raise your Child with Love and Limits http://www.amazon.com/Permission-Parent-Raise-Child-Limits/dp/0062277308. As I read some of her articles, with...
by PJColando | Jul 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
The bean pole person was strolling Trader Joe’s aisles, just ahead of me and my cart, head wheeling around like a tourist. At the end of the aisle she turned, and I realized that the bean pole was a female, not a man. Previously I’d only observed a closely...
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