by Sandy Lingo | Sep 13, 2017 |
Musings of a Viking/Wiking Wannabe I admit, most Americans don’t often think of Iceland as a vacation destination, but now that Iceland’s WOW Airline is servicing Cincinnati’s airport and advertising $99 tickets, I expect travel north, far north, will become...
by Sandy Lingo | Jun 5, 2017 |
Me sporting what my husband calls a “no pest strip. “Hark, how hard he fetches breath.” ―William Shakespeare There are a couple reasons I keep my husband. First among them is that he keeps the secret of my snoring. When we’re in a plane, in a movie theater, or...
by Sandy Lingo | Dec 4, 2016 |
So, we’re on a road trip. We’ve spent five days in the car together. Fortunately, we have a Bill Bryson audiobook, and there are plenty of weather changes and road construction to lubricate our conversation. We (that would be I) decide to stop for a nice...
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 | Nov 16, 2015 |
“Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.” ~Mohsin Hamid At a certain age (mine) you begin to read obituaries. And you develop a systematic separation procedure to put as much distance between you and the deceased. On a good day,...
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...
