by PJColando | Oct 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
In the first edition of the Daily News, this reporter has covered the Seven Deadly Sins: we’ve got Greed in the Business Section Sloth in the Leisure Section Gluttony in the Restaurant Reviews Lust in the Movie Reviews Envy in the Gossip Column Pride in...
by PJColando | Oct 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
It’s easy to understand UP, meaning toward sky and heaven or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP? At a meeting, do you listen UP when a topic comes UP – and never, never cut UP? When should we speak UP? You get written UP...
by PJColando | Oct 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
“The Great Recession officially lasted from December 2007 to June 2009, but it sure seemed longer” was the lead line of a story in the AARP (yes, I am old enough to be a member) Bulletin last month. I know, first hand, because I lost $16,000.00 when the...
by PJColando | Oct 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
Fourth grade marked my life with three events that vibrate in my heart and mind to this day. I wish I had a better eraser. I moved to a new school. Friends were hard to make. While I’d moved when I was two years old, then again when I was six, this one was more...
by PJColando | Sep 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
I was working my network to be a back-up singer for John Mellencamp, another Hoosier transplant to crazy California, in 2005. I was giving it my best shot when it hit me: a cancer diagnosis on this date, that year. ‘Twenty feet from stardom” was not going...
by PJColando | Sep 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
One of my friends has an ulcer, a condition now known to be a disease. She’s on a medication that brings relief and cure; back in the day, it was diet-controlled 100%. I know because my family endured the dietary constraints of my father’s ulcer treatment:...
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