by PJColando | Jan 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
Oh dear, here comes the flurry of questions again. At a party, in an after-church conclave, at a dinner with friends. I cringe despite a resolution to relax. I paste an ‘I’m pleased to answer you’ smile on my face and inhale. Ready, set, go! Most...
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by PJColando | Jan 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
What was the soundtrack of your coming of age? For my husband and I, it was rock ‘n roll, a genre that was reportedly named by a radio DJ in Cleveland, a city in the Midwest, near our roots states of Indiana and Michigan. It was music one could dance to…...
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by PJColando | Dec 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
“Gem down!” The women hit the floor and began to scrounge, combing the plush purple carpet with their long-nailed fingers. Someone might as well as said, “Man down!” for all the fervor they put into their task. There a brunette, there a curly top, there a long-haired...
by PJColando | Dec 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
What does one do to commemorate the finalization of a 30-year mortgage? To celebrate the closure of an onerous task: opening the checkbook and writing a check with many zeros 360 times… to be the owners of the home and not the bank! Here’s what we did:...
by PJColando | Dec 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
A diet began. Not out of preference, but out of necessity: I have no willpower and my weight had punched up. Groan. 😐 Yeah, my body was more than over-plump. I’d edged into fat. A while ago, but it was time. It was propitious because I’d have my...
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