by PJColando | Jan 8, 2014 | Purpose
Micawber MEANING: noun: An eternal optimist. ETYMOLOGY: After Wilkins Micawber, an incurable optimist in the novel David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens. His schemes for making money never materialize, but he’s always hopeful that “something...
by PJColando | Jan 6, 2014 | Purpose
I hated to do it, but it needed to be done. I tossed out the final Christmas cookies, dipped pretzels, chex mix, and fudge. We had already eaten nearly all of the treats – and you can tell, because the pounds are all around me. Now, if I could only toss the...
by PJColando | Dec 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
Oh-kay. Recently there were miracle posts and airplane posts and the two themes combined in a flash – done! Wait, there’s more…this time we take you inside the airport terminal… We were returning from a trip to visit our families in the Midwest,...
by PJColando | Dec 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
I wrote about Einstein’s brain in a recent post, one of my pedantically-oriented writings (I ‘know stuff’ and like to share, but these sort of things don’t come up in friendly talk, so I bring it up in blog). Because of Einstein’s great...
by PJColando | Dec 18, 2013 | In the Pink
I am wired differently than my husband, Larry. But that doesn’t mean that either is wrong or right – or assuredly male or female. Or that he’s bigger and better, though I affirm that he is. Or that either of us is left-brained/analytic vs...
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