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Dec 11, 2016

Marilynne Robinson trumps Trump

I’ve never made it a secret how much I adore the writing of Marilynne Robinson, but today, having just seen her essay in yesterday’s The Guardian, I could not admire her more.

Pam Parker in Pam Writes

Dec 6, 2016

3 Not-so-easy Questions

A recent article in Huffington Post has been staying with me. In We Ask Our Kids the Same 3 Questions Every Night, Meg Conley writes about the three questions her family shares at the dinner table every night. They are meant to keep the communication open, to build family bonds and they…

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Dec 28, 2016

Blue? Sadness and Hope can Co-exist

I haven’t had much mental energy lately. The election and subsequent ensuing results have whalloped me with a head cloud. A dark blue cloud. Many of my friends and family have been pulled low too. My sons and their loves have been whacked down. So, being bitten by…

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Dec 31, 2016

Saved by a Love Letter from Luis Urrea

I’ve never been a chronic insomniac, but apparently, I’m joining the club. The hours dragged last night, again, until the last watch-check at 3:40 a.m. Sleeplessness puts me in a fuzzy state. I’m not awake enough to write. I can read, sometimes, but that doesn’t…

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Dec 3, 2016

“She could actually be crazy.”

I have avoided touching on politics very often here, lest I offend any of my faithful followers — or turn away potential new ones. But, in perilous times, exceptions must be made. More than once, we have heard Donald Trump call Hillary Rodham Clinton and/or her followers…

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Dec 20, 2016

A Special Place: Memories & More

I adore a line from Fyodor Dostoyevsky in The Brothers Karamazov: “You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home.”

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Dec 7, 2016

Happy Birthday, Bryan Cranston!

Today is Bryan Cranston’s 60th birthday! So, I’d like to send Mr. Cranston happy birthday wishes from your Walter White character’s twin brother.

This fellow celebrated his 60th last year in Glasgow, Scotland. Yes, we had bacon.

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Dec 14, 2016

Hope Matters

Hope matters. It should not be confused with optimism, though they are siblings.

Vaclav Havel, the Czech playwright, dissident and later beloved statesman, was born in a time and place where it would have been easy to choose hopelessness, but he never did. In his essay, “Never…

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Dec 16, 2016

Escape into Stories — Jackie Mitchard

(Note from Pam — resharing on March 16, 2017 because Escape into Stories, yes!!)

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Dec 14, 2016

Climb Every F***ing Mountain!

It was time for a new look for PamWrites. For five years, I’d opened up the blog to that line drawing caricature of me and didn’t appreciate the frumpy me. At first, I loved that one. I loved the artwork, the fact that one of my favorite artists drew it, but I wanted the…

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Pam Writes

Pam Parker aka Persevering Professional. Writer, breast cancer & depression survivor, tries to bring hope, meaning & smiles to others as much as possible.

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