by PJColando | Apr 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
500 words personal essay, Orange County Roadshow/Podcast, 1888 Center, April 9, 2018 Because I’m compelled by blood. I honor my heredity: my parents and their highly literate minds. Because my first fully-formed memory shows my mother and me as ensemble. She took...
by PJColando | Apr 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
http://www.insecurewriterssupportgroup.com “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” Joan Didion’s famed opening line resounded the air as I took my first step into the slot canyon. I hoped I’d survive to tell this story. We’d read,...
by PJColando | Apr 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
Dreams are restorative, of that, we are assured. My physician ordered sleeping pills during my active treatment for breast cancer and angst. A dozen years later, I’m still on the pill. I sleep well and dream long. It’s said that dreams are both the love...
by PJColando | Mar 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
Spring cleaning! The time is here. The dirt must be cleared. It’s common among some Californians to do a body cleanse, but not since my mother did it ritually, had I considered a house cleanse. My mother’s chore list – Turn the mattress, beat the...
by PJColando | Mar 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
An odd thing happened in the OC this winter… it rained. Seriously. California is winter’s promised land in Elsewhere, USA, and Orange County is its prime showcase, a mecca for many. Sunshine is our platform, our right, our spirit animal. In a significant failure...
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