by PJColando | Dec 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
So, last summer my husband and I drove days and days through Utah, the land of Mormons and flat, distant-vista terrain. Our destinations were the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone, the grandest of “America the Beautiful” parks. Along the way, we...
by PJColando | Nov 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
So, here’s a story. It may be truth, it may be fiction. For the record, it’s not me. But it is a fairly good tale. 😉 On this date fifty years ago, my New England parents put me in the car with two soldiers, recently returned from Viet Nam. The uniform...
by PJColando | Mar 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
The guttural, low-toned chant of “Br-r-u-u-ce!” chilled me as it reverberated the Coliseum. Lar and I stood in front of our folding chairs, among others filing on the grass field to densely emulate chalk lines. The scene was not the Olympics, for these has...
by PJColando | Mar 25, 2015 | Uncategorized
It was a spectacular summer day in Hoosierland, and we were on the fly. Radio rocking our rental car, zooming at 75 mph on the Interstate, slicing Midwestern humidity like a butter knife. We’d landed at O’Hare a couple of days earlier, intent on...
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