by Sandy Lingo | Dec 13, 2015 |
Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.~Ed Koch What must it be like to be them? The woman in saggy mom...
by Sandy Lingo | Oct 8, 2015 |
“He’s the one,” Allison announced three years ago. These are three words I had never heard my 31-year-old daughter say. I wasn’t surprised, really, because during the week that “the one” visited, my usually attentive daughter didn’t answer e-mails, texts, or phone...
by Sandy Lingo | Aug 27, 2015 |
Perhaps you are a teacher and find yourself returning to your classroom . I hope you enjoyed your three-month vacation. Oh, not three months? Do the math, you say? Not really a vacation, but unpaid leave? Oh, whatever. I digress. Many of you are starting back to...
by Sandy Lingo | Aug 19, 2015 |
I did not love Rick the day I married him forty-three years ago. I knew this a month before the wedding when I briefly cancelled it, my mother assuring me, through gritted teeth, that the deposits and the invitations and the centerpieces she’d stayed up all night...
by Sandy Lingo | Aug 9, 2015 |
Let’s begin with a joke, shall we? Three Yogis are doing meditation in a remote cave. One day a sound is heard from outside the cave. After about six months, one of the yogis says, “Did you hear that goat?” Once again, there was silence. About a year...
by Sandy Lingo | Apr 29, 2015 |
Do you want to sleep in a stranger’s bed? Would you be willing to have a stranger sleep in yours? Airbnb is there to set up a date. CLICK HERE for a great one-minute commercial for Airbnb. Description from the airbnb website: “From futons on the floor...
