Trust Your Gut

Trust Your Gut

There’s much discussion these days about one’s gut health. Among medical practioniers of all ilks. Much of it gyrates about glutton and gluten, words that share letter sequences. Hm-m-nn. I have to admit that I Align better with this discussion of this new...
Monumental Shrink

Monumental Shrink

Raise your hand if you’ve been measured during a health physical recently, and then informed with that bland, benign smile that only doctors and judges wear, that you’ve shrunk? It’s what happened while you were walking around all these years,...
Silver Architecture

Silver Architecture

‘Silver architecture’: what image does this phrase evoke for you? I’m all about inventive, creative language, avoiding trite like the plague. I like this phrase. It’s source is an article in The New York Times, the paper of the preferred Best...
F*CK IT LIST

F*CK IT LIST

In reference to a prior post, https://www.pjcolando.com/bucket-list/, supplant this list for a Happy New Year: 1. Give up saying “yes” when you mean “no”. 2. Give up trying to please everyone, caring what ‘they’ think. 3. Give up...
The Seven Year Pen

The Seven Year Pen

So… I had a Big Birthday. Huge number. Big, almighty geez. How it affected me is unclear – to discover the scope of my thoughts, perspectives, and feelings is a reason to write, as you know. The process is amusing, not constraining. It keeps me off the...
Quartzsite Campers

Quartzsite Campers

Pour yourself a glass of Cardboardeaux, a beverage that we saw often in Quartzsite, AZ. This minuscule berg consists of a few blocks of buildings hugging I-10, just across the CA border. It’s swaddled by vast expanses of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) sand,...