Author Archives: Pam Lazos

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About Pam Lazos

writer, blogger, environmentally hopeful

Just Mercy

JUST MERCY Bryan Stevenson reminds me of Percy Jackson, the boy in those Rick Riordan novels, walking through life trying to fit in like a normal kid, but sensing something’s up, then discovering he’s the offspring of Poseidon and learning … Continue reading

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#WATWB – Summertime Summertime

Just for today, because it’s #WATWB day, I’m going to pretend my socially liberal, economically conservative, and environmental values are not imperiled now more than ever, that the Supreme Court is not about to swerve fervently to the right, that … Continue reading

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Father’s Day Photo Caption Contest

                     (photo by Scott Eberly) Father’s Day Photo Caption Contest Here’s our dog, Apollo, our cat, Raul, and the poor chipmunk, a victim of an unfortunate accident, or being in the … Continue reading

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Launch Day for Life in the Hollywood Lane

My friend, Ann Crawford, and her new book, Life in the Hollywood Lane!

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Ethical Consumerism, Part 7 – How to Sustain the Population in 2050.

Originally posted on The Green Stars Project:
Hi folks! In the previous post, I looked at how we can take actions as consumers to help curb population growth. This post is about actions we can take to sustain the human…

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NOBILITY

NOBILITY  If you read my original post about The Twelve Virtues of the Merchant Priests, as suggested in the book, Sacred Commerce, my goal is to reflect upon and write about these  12 virtues — honor, loyalty, nobility, virtue, grace, … Continue reading

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Teacher Not Preacher

Parent/Teacher Not Preacher Three years ago on the summer solstice, I honored one of my mother’s dying wishes and planted her ashes beneath a flowering bush.  My mom died in October of 2014 and while I still miss her terribly, … Continue reading

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The Hate U Give

THE HATE U GIVE Why do we Americans travel the world looking for engagement with other cultures when we have one right here, different from ours, exotic even, and instead of engaging, we put a police barricade around it?  I … Continue reading

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The Ocean Cleanup

[photo credit Erin Lafferty] The Ocean Cleanup It’s estimated that there are about 5 trillion pieces of plastic trash in the ocean, swishing around with the current, meeting up with other pieces of plastic and forming groups like the Great … Continue reading

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Earth Day 2018

  EARTH DAY 2018 The State of the Planet and What You Can Do to Help Fix It So here we are again, April 22, Earth Day, the one day a year that belongs to the “Mother of us all,” Senator Gaylord … Continue reading

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