by PJColando | May 3, 2021 | blog post, Uncategorized
What creative endeavors became casualties of COVID and it’s resultant pandemic in your life last year? What succumbed to the over-arching need to survive? The beaded bracelets shown in the photo below show two of the pastimes that disappeared from my life:...
by PJColando | Jan 26, 2021 | blog post
I’ve completed a half-dozen comprehensive questionnaires in the past two months, as I desperately sought the cause, then the cessation of my private earthquakes, 0-9 n a Richter Scale… the jitters and shivers of my joints that fought against my peace of...
by PJColando | Jul 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
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 | Uncategorized
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 | Uncategorized
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...
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