by PJColando | Oct 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
Writing is my ‘encore career’, a phrase I discovered today on a Baby Boomer ‘life transitions’ site. Applause, please, from the audience!!!! I’ve written thousands of clinical reports…and some of them contained fabulous fiction,...
by PJColando | Oct 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
Conflict, drama, travail…life constantly spins little ‘hiccups’ into one’s cycle, no matter what the schedule, the plan. Jump in, jump back, circle around again, sort of like the spin cycle of a washing machine, a ‘soap opera’, if...
by PJColando | Oct 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
I belong to a writer group that convenes each Thursday morning at Panera Bread. We are not part of the Starbucks clan: we prefer a full menu of ‘feed your face’ options. While not all of the writers are Boomers, post-careerists who have plenty of time, I...
by PJColando | Sep 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
Everyone has secrets: some large, some small, some devastating, some exact. Some would pin you to the wall or land an ‘innocent’ in jail. Everyone has secrets: from their family, from their spouse, from themselves. It was a key learning point to my novel...
by PJColando | Sep 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
There was a time when my husband flew so much on business that he could have sprouted wings. After all he is ‘the best man alive’, my angel. As he did his sales work in Elsewhere, USA, he amassed so many frequent flier miles that, even after his...
by PJColando | Sep 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
We are about to flip an epic page – well, not in California, but in Elsewhere USA. We are about to flip a calendar page and stride into fall. As an Baby Booming American, I often find myself striding – in the doors of the local drugstore. Today it was for...
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