by PJColando | Mar 12, 2019 | blog post
“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,...
by PJColando | Mar 5, 2019 | blog post
I’m just going to put this right here. It’s inviting, enticing, and bespeaks adventure, my husband and I are adventuring elsewhere in not-America. Makes you want to peek inside – yes? Yes! Open! Open! Are you gonna? You owe yourself a peek…...
by PJColando | Feb 12, 2019 | blog post, In the Pink
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...
by PJColando | Feb 5, 2019 | blog post
PJ, Ed, Narelle, and Larry in Sydney, Australia Good morning! Today we will pick up our Aussie friends from the airport. It’s been three years since we’ve seen them and we have much to discuss, much to celebrate. Jubilance abounds! Ed and Narelle will have...
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by PJColando | Jan 8, 2019 | blog post
What would make a great premise or inciting incident for a book? A hook for a reader – or for you, the writer? A murder, a secret, and/or promise to tell-all? A hint, a hazard, a second guess? Another of PJ’s infamous loose-with-the-truths? Here’s an...
by PJColando | Nov 21, 2018 | blog post, Purpose
The industry of old things = a new way to think. A better way of saying “repurpose” or “get-ridda-da-junk.” Not “off with the old, bring on the new.” No angst or bad breath from stale air. No antiques in my attic. (no attic, either....
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