by PJColando | Jul 29, 2013 | In the Pink, Purpose
1. I am a Blue Butt. 2. But I’m not what you think. 3. I am a crossbreed of Hampshire and Yorkshire Pigs. 4. I wallow in puddles and baths of mud 5. But not for reasons you think. 6. I don’t perspire to release body heat. I need to maintain my cool 7....
by PJColando | Jul 24, 2013 | In the Pink, Purpose
A few years ago I experienced dissolution of a family that I thought I’d had. I mourned and felt terrible – until I remembered my favorite Beatle, Paul. He was the odd man out in the dissolution of the Fab Four, the apparent lone ranger like me....
by PJColando | Jun 24, 2013 | In the Pink, Purpose
I used to work with public school special needs children. It was way back when, before personal computers, let alone i-Pads at everyone’s desk. It was also the days of plentitude in California, when every element of education was free – even the paper and...
by PJColando | Jun 4, 2013 | Blonde, In the Pink, Purpose
sprezzatura PRONUNCIATION: (spret-sah-TOOR-uh) MEANING: noun: Doing (or giving the appearance of doing) something effortlessly; effortless grace; nonchalance. ETYMOLOGY: From Italian. Earliest documented use: 1957. In 1957, the year of this term’s earliest...
by PJColando | May 1, 2013 | In the Pink, Purpose
Remember that holiday rite where you left a bouquet at a the front door of a friend, rang the doorbell, and ran away? Me neither. May be it was a florists’ dream from the 1950s. Established as the first of May and entitled May Day! Which, of course, is a...
by PJColando | Apr 2, 2013 | In the Pink
Look at the sweetener array. I paused each time I opened the kitchen cupboard when visiting my parents’ home in Indiana. Confronted with choices before I’d sipped the coffee in my mug…yikes! Confusion. Complications. All I wanted was to get my day...
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