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 | May 14, 2020 |
“Touch is a social glue, and without it, we’re in danger of becoming unglued.” Gregg Levoy* About five weeks ago (I first typed “five years”) my friend Susan and I sat on two park benches on opposite ends, putting us at least ten feet apart. Before sitting,...
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 | May 1, 2020 |
Last night my normally fastidious husband tossed his coat on the bench, the bench that sits a mere three feet away from our coat closet. “Why didn’t you hang up your coat?” I asked. “I’ll just have to get it out of the closet tomorrow morning.” “By that reasoning, why...
