by PJColando | Aug 1, 2023 | blog post, sorrow
August 2 question: Have you ever written something that afterward you felt conflicted about? If so, did you let it stay how it was, take it out, or rewrite it? Well, well, well. This is an interesting topic… I’m a writer who has a keen sense of irony, a...
by PJColando | May 30, 2023 | blog post, rant, sorrow
To write this blog post, I had to take a moment to empty my brain. The modern era of social media, morning and night news on nearly a dozen tv channels, radio, and podcasts ad nauseam has cluttered my head. It’s an infodemic, I swear! Technology has wired us to...
by PJColando | May 2, 2023 | blog post, Purpose, sorrow
So, you think you’ve got courage, Constant Reader. Try this on for size: A friend who’d moved to Florida Facetimed me to tell me she was dying. She had courage. She loved me enough to let me know in person. Unable to fly the 3000 miles, she did the next...
by PJColando | Jan 5, 2022 | blog post, In the Pink, Purpose, sorrow
Welcome 2022! https://www.insecurewriterssupportgroup.com I’m starting my writerly year with a retrospective of the ten years I’ve been writing creatively. My writing quest was to transition from my adored speech-language pathology into retirement. A means...
by PJColando | Oct 26, 2021 | blog post, rant, sorrow, Uncategorized
My husband and I have booked a flight to the Midwest, compelled to visit an elderly relative who is hospitalized and hovering near death, no matter what his medical team tries to infuse to fight his illnesses. We’ve been cautioned to demur, by those close to...
by PJColando | Sep 14, 2021 | Adventure, blog post, rant, sorrow
in mid-March 2020: The first clue of lock-down came with Disneyland’s closure and loss of the nightly fireworks display I cherished, which occurred near the ancient bad day, the Ides of March In mid-April 2020: I inadvertently stumbled into the crazed days of...
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