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Neil Gaiman Triptych

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Pam Lazos

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

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Pam Lazos

“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

Posted on December 10, 2015 by Pam Lazos

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’

Posted on December 4, 2015 by Pam Lazos

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

Posted on November 27, 2015 by Pam Lazos

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

Posted on November 26, 2015 by Pam Lazos

    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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Just a Couple of Old People Holding Hands

Posted on November 22, 2015 by Pam Lazos

     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

Posted on November 16, 2015 by Pam Lazos

[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

Posted on November 12, 2015 by Pam Lazos

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

Posted on November 8, 2015 by Pam Lazos

[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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