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 | Jul 29, 2021 |
Come in! Well, well, well. Look who’s here. I haven’t seen you in many A year. If I knew you were comin’ I’d’ve baked a cake, baked a cake, baked a cake If I knew you were comin’ I’d’ve baked a cake Howdya do, howdya do,...
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 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...
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...
