by PJColando | Dec 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
“Wear the pearls, use the good silver, don’t wait for a rainy day.” Words my mother said as she cruised the displayed wedding gifts at our reception. We married in the living room of my parents’ home, with the reception in the dining room,...
by PJColando | Dec 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
Tis the season to be jolly. Tis the season to shop. Tis the season to decorate your home, inside and out. Does your home look like the Griswolds? Do you compete with your neighbor to assure you have the biggest, gaudiest, noisiest, most electricity-sucking home on the...
by PJColando | Nov 28, 2017 | Uncategorized
For two dozen years, Soroptimists, an international service organization for women, consumed my spare time. Most often it was a good thing, a boon to my life. Because I was in solo private practice, and did not earn my speech-language pathology degree in this state, I...
by PJColando | Nov 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
One gathers their treasures anywhere they can, nuggets of silver and gold to line the spirit and the heart. To bolster the ego as needed at time, too. Especially when one is feeling waterboarded by ‘stuff’ 🙁 Remarks to relish: spontaneous, unaffectedly...
by PJColando | Nov 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
Some dates you never forget. The configuration of the room, the season, the temp. The people who showed up. Those not. When you got the news of Kennedy being shot, when the first plane flew into one of the Twin Towers – so you could turn on the live TV coverage...
by PJColando | Nov 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
So, here’s a story. It may be truth, it may be fiction. For the record, it’s not me. But it is a fairly good tale. 😉 On this date fifty years ago, my New England parents put me in the car with two soldiers, recently returned from Viet Nam. The uniform...
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