by PJColando | Nov 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
November 6 question – What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever googled when researching a story? Thanks to the awesome co-hosts of the IWSG – Sadira Stone, Patricia Josephine, Lisa Buie-Collard, Erika Beebe, and C. Lee McKenzie! Ah, you...
by PJColando | Oct 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
The first thing I recall losing was my haptic sense, the ability to field just one page from a stack. While this may not seem like a significant loss, think what a hindrance it might be for a writer who wants to quickly thumb through a manuscript. It hobbles my beta...
by PJColando | Apr 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
500 words personal essay, Orange County Roadshow/Podcast, 1888 Center, April 9, 2018 Because I’m compelled by blood. I honor my heredity: my parents and their highly literate minds. Because my first fully-formed memory shows my mother and me as ensemble. She took...
by PJColando | Mar 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
I’ve never been a late-night person. What about you? For the past week, my husband and I have been decidedly early-night people as jet lag pummeled our spirits, bodies, and souls. What to do with early-morning wake-up calls, when one’s sleep spirit is on...
by PJColando | Jan 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
During a burst of housecleaning, a seldom-seen occurrence in our house, I found a drawer full of pens with bank logos, our optometrist, UCI MIND (ha-Alzheimer’s research), our church, swag from a fellow author… It suddenly occurred to me that I was/am a...
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