by PJColando | Jul 7, 2020 | Blog Posts
First world problems are mocked… until one becomes Personal to Thee or Me. In early March, the early fright-filled days of COVID-19, our microwave lurched and stopped. Beaucoup chirpy clicks and beeps emerged from its space among the kitchen cabinets. My husband...
by PJColando | May 4, 2016 | Blog Posts
It was late night and I was alone. At LAX, a pinpoint on the daily passenger map, estimated back then at 50 million people a day. A minuscule ant among those traveling hither-thither-and-yon. Scared. You bet I was. Even a near miss wouldn’t do: I needed to...
by PJColando | Apr 30, 2014 | Black, Blog Posts
Well, it took 30 years to arrive, but 1984 is here. The novel was actually published in 1949, amidst the post WW2 euphoria. People thought George Orwell was dyspeptically grim, but it reached iconic, bestseller status anyway, infused with the universal paranoia that...
by PJColando | Jun 18, 2013 | Blog Posts, Blue
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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