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...
by PJColando | Mar 27, 2013 | In the Pink
I relish my momma’s advice because I so seldom got any; she was a busy homemaker. Every word was cash in the bank, kept in memory for all it was worth. Because it was always pithy and true, a keeper. “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say...
by PJColando | Mar 26, 2013 | In the Pink
by PJColando | Mar 20, 2013 | Blonde, In the Pink
We were celebrating a big birthday and an ‘all-clear’ from cancer for me. My husband and I had also endured an intense period of deaths, pitfalls, and passages in the prior year, and we needed to culminate our grieving with some kind of commemorative...
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