by PJColando | Jan 13, 2026 | blog post, rant
My inability to thread a needle, a task simply accomplished throughout thousands of hours of sewing tasks, is harassing my patience. Thank goodness I have little need to do it other than replace the occasional button or repair a garment’s hem loose threads....
by PJColando | Jan 7, 2026 | blog post, rant
Writing is an esteemed, yet difficult endeavor, a craft to be admired when well done. Via pen or pencil, people bled onto the page, pounded typewriter keys or computer keyboards, stared at walls for inspiration, and chewed nails in deadline desperation. Some took a...
by PJColando | Dec 30, 2025 | blog post, rant
The ease of email and texting – and the absense of cost – is a marvel to me. Magnificent and fine, indeed. Likewise, the spectacularly animated digital cards that I sent to friends and family at birthdays and Christmas this past year. Circumventing the...
by PJColando | Dec 16, 2025 | blog post
Carols are foundational to the celebration of Christmas season. Modern pop songs and jingles provide abundant opportunities to sing during the holidays, too. Singing is one of those rare activities that don’t require talent to be enjoyable — those who can’t carry a...
by PJColando | Dec 9, 2025 | blog post
If you were writing your autobiography, what title would you give it? It’s an interesting question, isn’t it, perhaps more interestinging than the contents of the biography, since most of us live mundanely ordinary lives. Like Sands through the Hourglass… a long...
by PJColando | Dec 3, 2025 | blog post
Robert Redford passed away a couple of months ago and within weeks the Turner Classic Movie channel marathoned his best known movies.Yay! I’d seen most of them during my young adult years, yet recorded them for posterity and personal delight. I watched them,...
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