by PJColando | May 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
KANSAS There it was in print, bold at the top of an ad. The name of one of our favorite rock bands, not the state. In concert in Cerritos. Though it was nearly an hour’s drive north east of our home, Larry and I were down. When we arrived at the concert hall, we...
by PJColando | May 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
It was a day threatening to rain more than the dabbles on our deck. It was also the day prior to a haircut… So I selected my orange fedora, blonde wisps peeking askew when I placed it atop my head. I got in my Mini Cooper to drive the freeway on errands....
by PJColando | May 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
“I’m blonde; what’s your excuse?” says my license plate frame. If you believe that, you are the dumb one and not me. Get it? Perhaps it’s a writer thing, a precision vocabularist’s tic. Think about it. I’ll wait. I am a...
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by PJColando | May 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
I am ardent, authentic, and undeniably out-going, a perennially chipper sort, a habit that astonishes people who’ve known me over time. After all, reality bites, doesn’t it? Life episodes hammer at one’s spirit, sending a person to drink or hunker...
by PJColando | May 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
You could see it coming, but just not today. No, it wasn’t a lottery win for PJC. If it was for you, don’t tell me. Please and thank you. Today I heard a radio ad for Reputation.com. With the refrain, “It’s not fair….we’ll fix it...
by PJColando | May 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
There were few things that Larry and I retrieved when the sibling group cleaned-and-cleared out our parents home after my dad’s death. After all, I had wanted parents, not remnants of life and love lost. My husband wanted my mom’s ironing board, a wistful...
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