Tag Archives: grief

Love in the Time of Corona: Venice Underwater – Is Manhattan next?

Posted on April 10, 2020 by Pam Lazos

Venice Underwater — Is Manhattan Next? I had flagged this article back in November when the floodwaters were rising in Venice and then set it aside. My title, Venice Underwater — Is Manhattan Next? was referring to the literal flooding … Continue reading →

Posted in coronavirus, Covid-19, social safety net, Uncategorized | Tagged #readingislife, American Dream, Covid-19, ebb and flow, grief, life speaks in metaphor, Manhattan, outside looking in, social isolation, social safety net, underwater, Venice, water | 57 Comments

Burn Your Maps

Posted on November 17, 2019 by Pam Lazos

BURN YOUR MAPS As most writers are, I’m an avid reader that adores a good story and while books are my first love, movies are a close second. So when I watch a movie that moves me the way Burn … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged adventure comedy drama, Burn Your Maps, filmmaker, goat herder, grief, immigration, infant death, Jacob Tremblay, Jordan Roberts, Mongolia, movies, nomad, nomadic life, something that knows what it wants, Vera Famiga | 34 Comments

Fallen Princeborn: Stolen

Posted on November 25, 2018 by Pam Lazos

Fallen Princeborn: Stolen Fallen Princeborn: Stolen, Jean Lee’s breakout YA novel, was eight years in the writing, eight years in the creating, eight years in the honing; and eight years in the suffering — through her postpartum … Continue reading →

Posted in book promotion, book review, books, fantasy, Uncategorized, world building | Tagged badass, book review, books, breakout novel, child abuse, Dandelion of Defiance, Fallen Princeborn: Stolen, feisty, grief, No More Pretty Rooms, scrappy, short stories, Tales of the River Vine, Tattered Rhapsody, The Boy Who Kept a Forest in his Pocket, The Preservation Jar, The Stray, The Wall, YA novel | 40 Comments

You Can Heal Your Life

Posted on September 5, 2017 by Pam Lazos

You Can Heal Your Life On August 30, 2017 Louis Hay, New Age icon, entrepreneur, pioneer, and positive thinker transitioned to her light body. Hay had been living in an elightened body for years, embodying what our best lives could … Continue reading →

Posted in all is well, Hay House publishing, Louise Hay, Uncategorized, unique | Tagged Beautiful Soul, death, grief, Hay House publishing, Hayrides, Heal Your Body, Louise Hay, New Age, New Thought, positive thinker, unique, You Can Heal Your Life | 25 Comments

Rabbit Warrior

Posted on January 10, 2017 by Pam Lazos

Rabbit Warrior In an era of tell-all books and reality TV, it’s still unnerving for the average person to reveal too much about themselves, their dreams, and dramas. The translucent nature of living in a world that thinks it knows … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged blogging, book review, Cape Cod, grief, Janet Brady Calhoun, Rabbit Warrior, self-help, summer, writer, writing | Leave a comment

Leaving Time

Posted on May 22, 2016 by Pam Lazos

Leaving Time Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult is part The Amazing Kreskin, part Defenders of Wildlife, and part When Elephants Weep all wrapped up in the body of a mystery. Jenna’s mother, Alice Metcalf has been missing for ten years. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged African Plains, bipolar disorder, book review, conservation, elephant sanctuary, grief, Jodi Picoult, large animal conservation, Leaving Time, private investigator, psychic, When Elephants Weep | 4 Comments

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged book review, bookscover2cover, death, Flutes and Tomatoes, grief, Paris, Wade Stevenson | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged alzheimer's, assisted living, blog, death, grief, matrimony, spousal care | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged alzheimer's, blog, blogging, communication, depression, family, grief, marriage, old age | 2 Comments

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 →