by PJColando | Jul 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
33, 000 miles on the odometer. We had driven 1000 of those miles in a week’s trek through Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. In a powder blue Crown Victoria with a trunk large enough to transport Jimmy Hoffa’s body as well as our minimal luggage. It was the...
by PJColando | Jul 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
Sigh. If you ever want to wave a conversational red flag in my face, just say “they” did it or said or thought it. Be ready, for I will ask you, “Who are ‘they’?” I rise forth from a lifetime of blame from a tattletailing little sis...
by PJColando | Jul 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
It’s 6:45 p.m…6:53, and then it’s 7:00 sharp, the time we planned to meet. I’m sitting in my BMW, soothing my neurotic apprehension with hits from the ‘80s on Sirius. The moon is smiling aloft on this typically faint-starred night. The light bleed of the human mass...
by PJColando | Jul 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
“I put it in a safe place.” How many of you have done this? Put an important item in a ‘safe place’, and then moved on with the hurly-burly of life, and…were unable to locate the item when needed, bewildered? I’ve learned to relax...
by PJColando | Jun 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
Jeanie’s Just Jealous, a picture book by PJ Colando 1: Daddy scoops his girls into a hug and says, “I love you both.” 2: Emma stays tight when Jeanie lets go… 3: Vexed, Jeanie crosses her arms and taps her toe. 4: Daddy winks: “Jeanie’s just...
by PJColando | Jun 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
I went to a daylong literary event recently and came away with more than inspiration, knowledge, and new books. I heard someone say that Ann Patchett’s book ‘Bel Canto’ was a happy book. Now, perhaps, I will have the courage to read...
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