by PJColando | Mar 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
For our 12th anniversary my husband gave me a significant ring. He also made a significant promise: that we’d travel abroad at least once/year for the rest of our lives. We’d achieved his travel goal of seeing all of our magnificent 50 states first,...
by PJColando | Mar 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
I had a beauty make-over in the 80s at Image Works with my splendid friend, Sandi Clark. The purpose was to authenticate my adulthood, my move from co-ed to professional woman, if you will. she added lipstick to ‘bring color to my face’, overriding the...
by PJColando | Mar 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
My husband and I revel in travel. We’ve been to all 50 states and 40 countries in the world. Hurrah! Our travel agent is a fortunate man because we usually bring our trips to him, so that he books appropriate air travel and the occasional side excursion,...
by PJColando | Mar 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
Okay. I confess. We washed my car last week. In our driveway. At home. In drought-cursed California. My thinking was simple: we’d been gone a month on vacation, so our water usage declined. No laundry, no toilet flushing, no dishwasher run. There was still the...
by PJColando | Mar 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
“These boots are made for walking…” but that’s not what they’ve been doing… I purchased these boots last October to prepare for the much-craved El Nino rains. California’s crops and people were thirsty. Typical winter in soCal...
by PJColando | Feb 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
We’ve just returned from lands Down Under, where I’ve learned an apropos phrase: the Tall Poppy Syndrome. It’s applied to me nearly all my life. In one incident after another, for better or worse, mostly worst. I am more sensitive than people care to...
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