Author Archives: Pam Lazos

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About Pam Lazos

writer, blogger, environmentally hopeful

Just a Couple of Old People Holding Hands

     Today is Carl R. Smith, Jr.’s birthday. I never met him in person, yet I have been inspired by his writings, proffered from time to time by his son, Bill, to a select group of readers over the … Continue reading

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Just a Couple of Old People Holding Hands

[photo courtesy of the Estate of Carl Smith] “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 Three – One of the Sad … Continue reading

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Big Magic

Big Magic      There’s Big Love in Big Magic, the new book by Elizabeth Gilbert, love of work, love of mucking around in the primordial soup of creativity, and love of manifesting into being that which makes your Soul … Continue reading

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Just a Couple of Old People Holding Hands

[photo courtesy of the Estate of Carl Smith] Here is the second installment of journal entries by Carl Smith, nonagenarian, retired Presbyterian minister, father to my friend Bill, who is editing his father’s writings, and husband to a woman, Mary Helen, … Continue reading

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Preparations are Underway

This post originally appeared in the wH2o Journal, the Journal of Gender and Water Preparations Are Underway      I met with Matt Lisle and Adrian Leviano, The Seed Guys, at their office in Vance Hall where the Wharton School’s graduate … Continue reading

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Ramblings of an Aging Head

I can’t say I was ever a Deadhead, maybe more of a Dead dilettante. I’ve always enjoyed their music, had some vinyl and some CDs, and when I get a Grateful Dead song stuck in my head I’ve got to … Continue reading

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All The Light We Cannot See

All the Light We Cannot See Combine elegant prose, a riveting tale that alternates between story time, and storyline, a provocative topic, war — unfortunately, always a provocative topic — and the predilection of the human spirit to survive even … Continue reading

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Just a Couple of Old People Holding Hands

[photos courtesy of the Estate of Carl Smith] I’ve spent the last month posting about death and grief and dying probably because my mom died a year ago and I’m still in process. A few months ago, my good friend … Continue reading

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Artichokes and City Chicken – An Interview with Jan Groft

An Interview with Jan Groft, author of Artichokes and City Chicken I first met Jan Groft about ten years ago at the Lancaster Literary Guild. I was on the Board at the time and had just concluded a meeting with … Continue reading

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Artichokes and City Chicken

For the seeker in all of  us, the question persists:  How can we decipher the voice that knows which path to take, the voice that comforts as we try to find our way, the voice that holds us up with … Continue reading

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