by PJColando | Jul 23, 2024 | blog post
We’re midway into the ‘dog days of summer’ and I’m already well-cooked, ready to be done. Officially calendared as the period: Wed, Jul 3, 2024 – Sun, Aug 11, 2024, the typically hot and humid period of summer between early July and early...
by PJColando | Jul 16, 2024 | blog post
It’s the middle of July and we are not doing something we used to do a lot: go to the Orange County Swap Meet for hours on Saturday morning. For example, it was one of the places we took our Midwestern family members who came to visit. For example, my father and...
by PJColando | Jul 9, 2024 | Adventure, blog post
My husband and I have traveled to all 50 states of the USA. While it may appear to be a brag, it’s humble. We most recently returned to Indiana and Michigan where longtime friends and family reside. The Midwest is a wholesome heartland and we had a great time...
by PJColando | Jul 3, 2024 | blog post, Purpose
My storytelling career began in the back seat of a car, a ’57 Chevy with its glamorous two-tone green paint job. Inside the vehicle, with the bench seats and the green dash was a giant steering wheel, reserved only for my dad. My mom’s role was to occupy...
by PJColando | Jun 25, 2024 | blog post, Purpose
Do modern kids and their moms know what an apron is? Perhaps, but they think of an apron encircling the waist of a waiter at a dine-in restaurant or a server at In-N-Out or McDonald’s. It’s not something worn at home except when Dad’s the BBQ man....
by PJColando | Jun 18, 2024 | blog post, In the Pink
It was Father’s Day a year ago when I was rescued from a tough situation and came to live with the Colandos. It was the best day of my life, I thought. But things just got better and better. I’ve listed ten strategies that helped to make it so. Strategy 1:...
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