by PJColando | Oct 14, 2025 | blog post
When I’m Ninety-five (By Bruce Handy and Jay Martel (from The New Yorker ) Listen Do you want to know a secret? Do you promise not to tell? Whoa, oh, oh Closer Let me whisper in your ear It’s the left one that still hears? Now I’ve forgotten what I wanted to say...
by PJColando | Jul 13, 2021 | blog post
A major question among my Baby Boomer peers is, “How can I reduce my risk of cognitive impairment (aka Old Timers’ Disease)? Unfortunately, there’s no magic pill that can prevent memory loss, ward off cognitive decline, or keep us young and healthy...
by PJColando | Jan 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
Our friends in Colorado gushed over the fall color, the golden oneness of an Aspen grove when my husband and I rhapsodized about the fall color that we missed from our childhoods in the Midwest, during a visit with them last June. Later they showed the aspens in...
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by PJColando | Jan 8, 2019 | blog post
What would make a great premise or inciting incident for a book? A hook for a reader – or for you, the writer? A murder, a secret, and/or promise to tell-all? A hint, a hazard, a second guess? Another of PJ’s infamous loose-with-the-truths? Here’s an...
by PJColando | Nov 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
People are prone to opinions, but like the pigs in the famous satiric book about society, Animal Farm, some people are more entitled to their opinions than others. For example, people of a certain age, like me. We are Boomers, people who’ve lived at least 50-60...
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