Stashes of Stuff
Blog
Pink vs. Blue Sweetener
Look at the sweetener array. I paused each time I opened the kitchen cupboard when visiting my parents' home in Indiana. Confronted with choices before I'd sipped the coffee in my mug...yikes! Confusion. Complications. All I wanted was to get my day started with...
#1 US April Fools Hoax
In its April 1985 edition, Sports Illustrated published an article by George Plimpton that described an incredible rookie baseball player who was training at the Mets camp in St. Petersburg, Florida. The player was named Sidd Finch (Sidd being short for...
Social Life
I relish my momma's advice because I so seldom got any; she was a busy homemaker. Every word was cash in the bank, kept in memory for all it was worth. Because it was always pithy and true, a keeper. "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all"; "You...
Why it’s all not memoir
Houseguests #3: GPS
We've had a host of house guests in Casa Colando, California: most interesting, some sublime, some ridiculous, some petty, a nervy test to the nerves. Reader beware, lest the latter people come to inhabit your house. A couple called, saying that they were flying to...
…”when I’m 64″
We were celebrating a big birthday and an 'all-clear' from cancer for me. My husband and I had also endured an intense period of deaths, pitfalls, and passages in the prior year, and we needed to culminate our grieving with some kind of commemorative trophy....
The mind wanders
This post was written in late February as I awaited a scheduled surgery date. I acted on my faithful friend's wisdom, that, what the mind doesn't know, it invents...I sidetracked worry into its own dead end, not allowing it to blight my day or night. I utilized my...
the Book of Daniel
I took a blank paged book to Africa, to write in everyday impressions, facts, experiences. It's a habit that we gleaned from my parents, the intrepid travelers we impersonate. We noticed that they recalled each of their trips in vibrant details, complete with facts...
Lawyer Up
As you may recall I am a process-oriented person, not a product-oriented person. So it was not what happened, but how it happened that shook me to my core. I was seated in my car, just a few minutes before 5:00 on a week day, stashing the dry cleaning receipt in the...
Contact Me
Get In Touch
PJ would love to hear from you. Do you have a question about PJ's books and musings, don't be shy!