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Spring Cleaning
It’s common among some Californians to do a body cleanse, but not since my mother did it ritually with the turn of the seasons, had I considered a house cleanse.
The California Life Style
An odd thing happened in the OC this winter… it rained.
Shenanigans vs. She nods off again
St. Paddy’s Day approaches. What will you do to prepare?
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...
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