by PJColando | Jun 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
Legend has it that three days passed between when my mother’s father hung this trivet on the kitchen wall, next to the sink used multiple times each day, before my grandmother noticed it. When my grandmother passed, this was my request from their household, my...
by PJColando | Nov 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
Been There. Done That. Whew. Sometimes, you skip that amazing event because you crave a home stay, to read a book or watch TV or flick away idly at Facebook posts, while brutalizing your psyche with thoughts that you’ve missed a scrapbook moment, one for which it’s...
by PJColando | Mar 12, 2014 | In the Pink
A widely accepted convention of love is that opposites will attract. It’s proof is under our roof: my husband, whose natural skin tone is the tan to which I aspire, married the lassie of peaches-and-cream, skin that necessitates sun screen, not nonchalance....
by PJColando | Sep 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
Six years ago on this day Alex died. His last words were spoken to his trainer, Dr. Irene Pepperberg: “You be good. See you tomorrow. I love you.” Alex, the African gray parrot, lived 31 years. He was smart. He learned hundreds of words and combined them...
by PJColando | Jun 4, 2013 | Blonde, In the Pink, Purpose
sprezzatura PRONUNCIATION: (spret-sah-TOOR-uh) MEANING: noun: Doing (or giving the appearance of doing) something effortlessly; effortless grace; nonchalance. ETYMOLOGY: From Italian. Earliest documented use: 1957. In 1957, the year of this term’s earliest...
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