by PJColando | Jan 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
All of us have bad habits, some badder than others. Such as the people who break Commandments, like ‘Thou shalt not murder, steal, and/or covet,” which are remarkably, regrettably bad. According to a cutely credible pop culture book, ‘Everything Bad...
by PJColando | Jan 12, 2015 | Uncategorized
Lights out at 7:35 p.m. No, this is not a description of our Baby Boomer bedtime. Lights off, TV becalmed, desktop computers no longer sleeping, but shut down. More importantly, the carefully-plugged in emergency light poised between the kitchen and family room did...
by PJColando | Jan 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
What I said in my outside voice: “Hi, good to see you again.” What I said inside my head: “Look me in the eye, not the lids”, while the woman, an acquaintance I hadn’t seen in some time, scrutinized the space between my pupils and...
by PJColando | Dec 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
What would you name your favorite flush? Royal? Our household’s new favorite flush is ‘Innocent Blush’, the color of the new toilet in our entry hall powder room. There are many funny, awkward jokes embedded in that color name of a discontinued...
by PJColando | Dec 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
“Bucket List”… If I hear or read that term one more time, I’m gonna implode. I’ll kick a bucket, onto somebody’s head like one of the situations of “Because a Little Bug Said Kachoo!”, the ‘butterfly effect’...
by PJColando | Dec 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
Hemingway’s Bar. I recall the joy, my enthralled awe as I plunked my butt on a stool at Hemingway’s Bar in Paris. It was long before I set my intention to write a book, yet I succumbed to the immediate allure, the pretense of sitting in his place. Heady...
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