by Sandy Lingo | Mar 13, 2020 |
It’s an expression: “I couldn’t give it away.” That summer day in 2007, I couldn’t give our encyclopedia set away. The kids had moved out, and now we were moving out, trading the big five-bedroom house for 1200 square feet in a city high rise. There would be no room...
by Sandy Lingo | Jul 24, 2019 |
Our Moroccan guide, Zak, confirmed the setting of the sun with an i-phone app, then took a long drink. “This is the best sip of water you will ever have,” he said, grinning. Our guide couldn’t eat or drink all day because it was Ramadan, the month when Muslims fast...
by Sandy Lingo | Jul 9, 2019 |
Graduation speeches range from the ridiculous to the sublime.There’s this advice from actress Katie Holmes: “Don’t use a fake ID to buy wine and then try to pay with a check.”And this from Cindi Lauper: “Life is going to give you a bad turn…It’s just a test. And...
by Sandy Lingo | Dec 3, 2018 |
“Our Japanese lady died,” I told my neighbors shortly after rushing in late to the party last week.“Oh no!” exclaimed several.“That is so sad,” one woman said, sincerely distraught. “How did you find out?” Mary Ann asked.The waitress at Sophia’s, the diner practically...
by Sandy Lingo | Jun 13, 2018 |
“Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.” ~ Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall “It’s hard to believe in coincidence, but it’s even harder to believe in...
by Sandy Lingo | Jul 30, 2017 |
Teaching years are like dog years. I taught for 196 years.Conversely, retirement years speed by like a guppy’s lifespan. I have been retired since Spring 2010, and while it doesn’t feel like yesterday, it doesn’t seem possible that I’ve been going to sleep for nine...
