by PJColando | Jan 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
New Year’s Resolutions, Version 1.0 – here goes nothing (wink-wink) Last year I flew to Indiana twice. One time the travel was bumpy. The other time it was not. Interestingly, the first trip went smoothly, serenely between the plane there and the plane...
by PJColando | Jan 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
Oh dear, here comes the flurry of questions again. At a party, in an after-church conclave, at a dinner with friends. I cringe despite a resolution to relax. I paste an ‘I’m pleased to answer you’ smile on my face and inhale. Ready, set, go! Most...
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by PJColando | Jan 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
What was the soundtrack of your coming of age? For my husband and I, it was rock ‘n roll, a genre that was reportedly named by a radio DJ in Cleveland, a city in the Midwest, near our roots states of Indiana and Michigan. It was music one could dance to…...
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by PJColando | Dec 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
“Gem down!” The women hit the floor and began to scrounge, combing the plush purple carpet with their long-nailed fingers. Someone might as well as said, “Man down!” for all the fervor they put into their task. There a brunette, there a curly top, there a long-haired...
by PJColando | Dec 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
What does one do to commemorate the finalization of a 30-year mortgage? To celebrate the closure of an onerous task: opening the checkbook and writing a check with many zeros 360 times… to be the owners of the home and not the bank! Here’s what we did:...
by PJColando | Dec 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
A diet began. Not out of preference, but out of necessity: I have no willpower and my weight had punched up. Groan. 😐 Yeah, my body was more than over-plump. I’d edged into fat. A while ago, but it was time. It was propitious because I’d have my...
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