by PJColando | Mar 12, 2014 | In the Pink
A widely accepted convention of love is that opposites will attract. It’s proof is under our roof: my husband, whose natural skin tone is the tan to which I aspire, married the lassie of peaches-and-cream, skin that necessitates sun screen, not nonchalance....
by PJColando | Mar 10, 2014 | In the Pink
The over-large postcard arrived in the mail, heralding an appealing offer: the maiden voyage of a Celebrity cruise, an eight-day Mediterranean itinerary that included the Holy Land. Two days in Israel, not a large country, but laden with Christian treasures and...
by PJColando | Feb 17, 2014 | In the Pink, Purpose
Yesterday was a hallmark day, as important as our wedding anniversary. It is the date that I met Larry Colando, at a Grad House Party in 1974. I learned later that he’d taken out a life insurance policy the day before. Foreshadowing that his life would be...
by PJColando | Dec 18, 2013 | In the Pink
I am wired differently than my husband, Larry. But that doesn’t mean that either is wrong or right – or assuredly male or female. Or that he’s bigger and better, though I affirm that he is. Or that either of us is left-brained/analytic vs...
by PJColando | Dec 11, 2013 | In the Pink
My husband used to travel extensively, flying about the country to market shrink wrap packaging, a product that changed the way the world shopped. Store lighting bounced off the clear plastic film fit closely around products, so that each seemed to have its own...
by PJColando | Oct 23, 2013 | In the Pink
Life is not a simple walk in the park, is it? There’s all those people and opinions plotting the demise of happiness from the vagary of their human nature. While “a walk in the park” is an idiom, people can just be idiots. As you know from my tag...
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