by PJColando | Apr 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
The trouble with pain is its persistence, unlike memory or friends. It nags you like your mom before your first day of school – or your dad after your last. Take an aspirin… Aspirin absolves pain – without clear explanation. Perhaps I should have...
by PJColando | Apr 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
What do you recall from the first day of school? What rite of passage pleased you most: your novelty lunchbox, new clothes, a fresh hair cut? What accompanied your catapult from carefree kinder and endless opportunities for mayhem? What rite of passage piqued you on...
by PJColando | Apr 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
Never underestimate the therapeutic power of driving 80 mph along a coast. With the top down, radio blasting Bruce tunes. I was cuddled in blankets up to my chin just a few hours earlier, my chest heaving after each volcanic cough. The Flu Siege had snared me, synced...
by PJColando | Apr 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
A fan/friend told me that she relishes the tales I write from life… I do, too. Especially when it comes to citing miracles. What follows is among the best, one that shouts ‘luck of the Irish’, followed by a chaser of champagne or beer. The two...
by PJColando | Apr 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
Ambivalence pervades America. Fear lurks, invading souls. As peers freely spew hate-filled rhetoric, I long to invoke my freedom to plug my ears. Perhaps that’s why so many younger folks walk about with earbuds… In fact, divergence of mind set and values...
by PJColando | Apr 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
Plantar facitis – I have it again. Oopsy, the shoes I’ve been wearing. Oopsy, a mash-up of syllables and sounds again. What’s a girl to do – go shoe shopping, of course! One can not mend a brain, so one must spend – Retail therapy is...
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