by PJColando | Jul 22, 2025 | blog post, Purpose
These days I’m suffering with simmering disquietude nearly all the time. I know you know why… the world, our country. I feel as if I must return to biting my nails or stuff a fist in my mouth to suppress a scream worthy of a B-Actress in a bad horror film, due to the...
by PJColando | Dec 24, 2024 | blog post, In the Pink
Last Monday, December 16, I received a Christmas miracle. The date was the fourth anniversary of my ill-fated visit to the local hospital’s ER. While I’d been experiencing involuntary muscle twitches during massages in the previous month, on that day, my...
by PJColando | Nov 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
Humans tend to fall into a trap of thinking that well-being is a zero-sum game. Disasters rip away the fallacy of self-reliance, to which Americans are prone. Disasters have laid bare our utter dependence on one another. We’ve experienced this before/after...
by PJColando | Apr 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
http://www.insecurewriterssupportgroup.com “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” Joan Didion’s famed opening line resounded the air as I took my first step into the slot canyon. I hoped I’d survive to tell this story. We’d read,...
by PJColando | Jan 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
At last we saw the latest Star Wars epic, Rogue One. Smash, bang, boom, whip fast, gee whiz, shazam! The film’s clarion through line, “Revolution is built on hope” renewed mine. Hope against hope. Yoda said it first, though I didn’t locate his...
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