by PJColando | Feb 1, 2023 | blog post, Purpose
Though I’m less insecure than when I joined this group, I choose to remain within its fold. I’m no longer abashed by my lack of credentials, such as the vaunted MFA, nor cowed by the critique received in a group of honest and well-wishing peers. I feel...
by PJColando | Oct 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
I call my short story writing genre “loose with the truth” because there is always, always, always a kernel of truth in the fiction I flash. Some in my crit group have become confused after they read one of my short stories, certain it was a personal essay despite my...
by PJColando | Nov 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
I am a Process, not a Product Person. A PP, not a PP: pick your poison, peeps. I enjoy/dislike the act of doing/achieving more than the outcome/aftermath. Process vs. Product. It’s an education learning theory about how one absorbs and retains information...
by PJColando | Mar 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
As you may recall I am a process-oriented person, not a product-oriented person. So it was not what happened, but how it happened that shook me to my core. I was seated in my car, just a few minutes before 5:00 on a week day, stashing the dry cleaning receipt in the...
by PJColando | Jan 7, 2013 | blog post
This new term came to me in a Word Spy email, the urban dictionary that is keeping this older chick hip… well, actually my mouth is keeping me hipper, by eating all the stuff 🙁 But I digress as I speak of my propensity to ingest (laugh now) My husband and I...
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