by Sandy Lingo | Aug 1, 2022 |
“Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets” ~ Oscar Wilde “Little by little, one travels far.” J.R. Tolkein “Live your life.” Dr. Regina Kohls “You worry too much. Stop worrying. It will be fine,” said my older daughter multiple times as we planned the...
by Sandy Lingo | May 7, 2022 |
Last night I slept on my mother-in-law’s gold couch. This is the couch I convinced her to buy a few years ago to replace her ratty forty-year-old one. We shopped all day, first going to all the places she wanted, cheap furniture stores in dicey neighborhoods. I...
by Sandy Lingo | Sep 23, 2020 |
Not sure when I hatched the plan. Was it when my husband came home from his doctor’s appointment at 10:30 one morning and found me in bed reading? “I see you haven’t made it out of bed yet,” he said. Was it when he lay in bed, conversing with Siri in that slow,...
by Sandy Lingo | Aug 7, 2020 |
“Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few.” Winston Churchill “Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it. Ignorance may deride it. Malice may distort it. But there it is.” Winston Churchill “We will not be...
by Sandy Lingo | May 8, 2020 |
Maybe it was because I had just dyed my hair for the second time while in captivity. Or maybe it was because I had just squeezed the last squoze out of the toothpaste tube I had opened on the first day of the quarantine. Just maybe it was because we had let the house...
by Sandy Lingo | Apr 17, 2020 |
“I wonder why one candle is dripping more than the other,” wondered my husband “I wonder if those Adirondack chairs are plastic or wood?” “I wonder why they didn’t tear down this building/paint this wall/put on a new doorknob, and where exactly does the...