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PJ’s Prose is like ____
"Colando’s prose is energetic in style and often musical in tone, displaying a keen awareness of image and rhythm... The Winner's Circle is a stylish, comic tale about unexpected changes in life." Who wrote this, you ask? My mother, my husband, my best friends? Nope,...
It’s all in the perspective – which can shift
What perspective do you like to write from best: hero/protagonist or villain/antagonist and why?
Back soon – and, in the meantime…
a read-and-review, for a friend, puts you in the winner’s circle…
Woosh! Friendship lost and regained. Whew!
Woosh. All the air left Bonnie’s lungs. The moments-ago lobby scene with Jackie was bad—well, she admitted it had been a fight. Not like the grasping-and-clawing, utterly gross mudwrestling Bonnie had glimpsed during an online search for one of Pastor Rankin’s...
Life as a Miracle: an evening dress and an ICU visit
This miracle started with a fundraiser, well, it actually started with a disease. Cancer, the big, f***ing, frightening disease. I'd had breast cancer - and before that, my mom did. We survived, lived to tell our tale and show our support for others facing the...
What love is –
What love is: relentless tender feelings and accommodation of foibles... utter lack of practicality to provide any and all support... ardent devotion gingerly mingled with silliness: to take oneself seriously is to undermine the nature of loving another more than...
Creative Outlets for Me and Thee
Reading feeds my spirit and writing saves my soul. I share my self. What about you?
Our Friends are Here! Our Friends are Here!
February 7 is my birthday and it’s a Big -0! Do come to the BackBay Conference Center, 3415 Michelson, Irvine 92612. We can’t have fun without you!
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