by PJColando | Oct 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
Frigid stare. If I parked a sparkly new Corvette on our freezer’s eye level shelf or deposited a shiny diamond in the vegetable crisper, my husband would just hold the door open and gape. For seconds which seem like days. In full view of a wife who wants to save...
by PJColando | Oct 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
Curiosity makes you smart, silly, and sensational. Curiosity helps you retain Wonder, which is grand! Curiosity drives knowledge growth, which can never hurt… Yet, “curiosity killed the cat” Yikes! Splat! Curiosity didn’t kill Curious George, a...
by PJColando | Oct 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
What’s to make of a world in which one-percenters wear blue jeans, those who can afford to be cavalier with cash yet choose to look poor, with tattered and ripped jeans? Where a Dead Head sticker is spotted on Cadillac, a line made famous long ago in an Eagles...
by PJColando | Oct 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
I call my short story writing genre “loose with the truth” because there is always, always, always a kernel of truth in the fiction I flash. Some in my crit group have become confused after they read one of my short stories, certain it was a personal essay despite my...
by PJColando | Oct 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
I’ve never considered goal setting my thing. I’ve never consciously set a goal in my life. I just drift and do, disregarding desire for excellence. Who planted a goal for excellence in your brain? Your fourth-grade tutor, your high school English teacher,...
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