by PJColando | Aug 28, 2024 | blog post
My husband and I gloried along with the Olympians, relishing the individual athletic prowess, the verve and enthusiasm, and the never-say-die attitudes. We basked in the reflected glow of American athletes’ skills and medal rewards for them. The young athletes...
by PJColando | Aug 20, 2024 | Adventure, blog post
I’ve been a breast cancer survivor for nearly sixteen years. Yeah, hurrah, and hallelujah! Say it again – amen! Because I had a rare, insidious, and aggressive type, we can double down on the yelps and applause – and repeat them as long as we like....
by PJColando | Aug 13, 2024 | Adventure, blog post, Purpose
No, this is not one of Aesop’s famous fables about the tortoise and the hare. My limerick tale is my creation, a fable I made up as response to another writer’s limerick titled ‘Urtle the Turtle.’ My fable’s title is ‘Sam and...
by PJColando | Aug 7, 2024 | blog post
When I copy-pasted Ernest Hemingway’s 7 Tips for Writing into a Word document, ProWriter’s Aid, an AI tool I’d installed, underlined several sentences, especially the words he spoke! Yikes! What’s a novice to do? Who to believe: a prose master human...
by PJColando | Jul 30, 2024 | blog post
If you’d sequestered on a ten-day writers’ retreat, leaving home on Friday evening, July 12, and returning Monday, July 22, the United States’ political landscape tilt-a-whirled. On July 13, at an outdoor political rally, to which Trump is prone, a...
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...
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