by PJColando | Dec 3, 2024 | blog post, Purpose
Behold half of our merry gatherers for our Friendsgiving this year. The couple across the table from my husband and I are longtime friends who’ve hosted us for Thanksgiving for a dozen years. They allowed us to reciprocate because they’d recently returned...
by PJColando | Nov 26, 2024 | blog post, Purpose
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors and the most patient of teachers.” – Charles W. Eliot, American academic and 21st president of Harvard University in his 1896 book, The Happy...
by PJColando | Nov 19, 2024 | blog post, Purpose
I’m back in physical therapy. I likely qualify as a lifer because I rehab injuries as well as attempt to prevent stuff. Like knee surgery. When I enter the large open therapy room, my PT stops what he’s doing – even treating another patient –...
by PJColando | Nov 12, 2024 | blog post, sorrow
We – the majority of Americans who voted last week, not me, myself, or I – just elected a guy who’s fine with the climate crisis and increasingly drastic swirls of weather, children and teachers getting shot in school, with no Department of...
by PJColando | Nov 5, 2024 | blog post, Purpose
My husband and I will awaken before dawn on our national election day. Our lives will improve in a couple of ways, for better rather than worse we pray. an ENT/surgeon will remove the two amorphous growths on my parathyroid, alleviating a long-standing issue with...
by PJColando | Oct 31, 2024 | blog post, rant, sorrow
So, on Thursday, October 24, I endured a lumbar spinal puncture ordered by my specialty neurologist, who’s in the hunt for a diagnosis for my intermittent muscle spasms/joint jerks. For nearly four years, this disturbing condition has ruled my life to varying...
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