by PJColando | Jul 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
Ten days ago my husband and I returned from a Grand Trip: shepherding grand kids and their folks to the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone National Parks, the epicenter of Nature’s gifts to Earth, a spectacular conglomeration of geysers, critters, waterfalls, and rock...
by PJColando | Jul 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
Cookies, cakes, and casseroles. Banana nut bread, blanched tomatoes from an uber garden crop, apple and carrot cakes. What am I doing: procrastibaking. That is, putting off an important or urgent task by baking. I am an insecure writer. The urgent task, of course, is...
by PJColando | Jun 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
I have a tape recorder memory. At least I once did. It works like the vaunted photographic memory. I recall snippets of conversations, often odd bits that don’t fit a logical paradigm. It’s not because I was once an actress, as the graphic suggests, but...
by PJColando | Jun 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
The curious interest, the thinly-veiled stare, the hesitation, the pointing, the whispering – and then the ask, rather the tell: “You’re ____, aren’t you.” A shy, yet gushing smile. Marietta Harley, for one. In her case, I think it was...
by PJColando | Jun 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
“You have beautiful skin,” he said. Though my husband wasn’t within earshot, it was too late in the evening to be a come-on, so I just smiled and said “Thanks.” And, then I gave him the spiel, the story I’ve been repeating for 30+...
by PJColando | Jun 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
So, here I am, planting an ear worm for a popular commercial in your head. Me, the writer who seldom watches tv. One of my reasons for writing is that it’s a quiet hobby for when my retiree husband watches sports (often). He’s forever grateful that I...
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