Author Archives: Pam Lazos

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About Pam Lazos

writer, blogger, environmentally hopeful

I Wanna Be Sedated

[Lake Norman, SC] I WANNA BE SEDATED      So you go to the doctor because you have a nasty cold that you just can’t shake and she gives you a prescription for antibiotics and you take them for ten … Continue reading

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From a Climate Change Christmas to a Hi-Tech New Year

[photo by Arianna Rich] “Roughly one-eight of the carbon in your flesh, hair and bones recently emerged from smokestacks and tailpipes. We are not only a source of air pollution — we are pollution, and our waste fumes will henceforth be … Continue reading

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An EarthRespect Happy Holidays!

Best use of beach plastic that I’ve seen.

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From the Darkness Comes the Light

[photo courtesy of Lucille Famulary] From the Darkness Comes the Light The winter solstice, that time when the earth is plunged into darkness and its inhabitants pray for the return of the light.  The internet is awash in backstories: the … Continue reading

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Neil Gaiman Triptych

Anansi Boys/The Ocean at the End of the Lane/Neverwhere Neil Gaiman is crazy. Neil Gaiman is deep. Neil Gaiman lives in bizarro world. Neil Gaiman is ridiculously English in his storytelling. Neil Gaiman may be an extraterrestrial. Neil Gaiman is … Continue reading

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Just a Couple of Old People Holding Hands

“Just a Couple of Old People Holding Hands”: A Memoir of a Marriage in Alzheimer’s World By Carl R. Smith, Jr. Edited by William C. Smith Post Five – “old fashioned things like marriage vows and duty” “Will you love … Continue reading

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Flutes and Tomatoes

Flutes and Tomatoes – A Memoir With Poems Originally posted on bookscover2cover “I became sensitive to every vibration in the air, to every nuance of the changing light. It would be late afternoon. It was then that the snake of … Continue reading

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The Climate It Is a-Changin’

The Climate It Is a-Changin’      Over 150 world leaders gathered in Paris on Monday in the city of love, and also the location of one of the world’s worst terror attacks since 911, to talk about the weather, … Continue reading

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We’re S-H-O-P-P-I-N-G

We’re Shopping When I was a kid, Black Friday was almost a holiday onto itself. My Italian, South Philadelphia-raised mother relocated to Jersey when she got married, but approximately once a season, she managed to take us kids to Philadelphia … Continue reading

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An Attitude of Gratitude

    An Attitude of Gratitude If a certain Congressman who happens to be Chair of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology as well as a climate change denier gets his way, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration … Continue reading

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