by PJColando | Feb 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
In my 30s I learned a life lesson: The reward for good work is more work. The thought that followed like Mary’s little lamb was equally pertinent to quality of life: If the reward for good work is more work, then I will go into private practice because I will...
by PJColando | Sep 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
My husband and I enjoy meeting people. I’ve often been called a social butterfly, and he’s one, too. In proper male terms, of course. Honest interest in others is infectious; it gains us many acquaintances and friends. In any conversation’s opening...
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 | Sep 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
While folks often say, “Life can spin on a I’m writing about an important life episode initiated by a ‘spin on a heel’: mine. As we walked across the church parking lot, my husband and I spied our friend, and former pastor, walking with his...
by PJColando | Feb 5, 2014 | Purpose
I said good-bye to thousands of people in the past several days, and then threw them in the trash. Details of restoration and recovery of skills, details of loss and re-birth, notes of triumphs and tears – documented in manila files. I finger-traced all the...
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