BY PAMELA JO BOWMAN – MESA ARIZONA – I love my work, but with all good things there are negative side affects. For me, the one side affect I could live without is the extra 20 pounds I have accumulated this year! I have never had weight issues. Never say never. Sitting in front of …

BY PAMELA JO BOWMAN, MESA ARIZONA – A few years ago, my husband and I traveled “down home.” This trip takes a minimum of seven hours. I decided to see how long it would take before he instigated a conversation. We pulled into the driveway seven hours later and he put the vehicle in park. …

Ya Got To Have Friends This video was part of an annual presentation. Since I am editing the presentation I chose not to include it in the video, but I am now tormenting my “friends” by posting this here. Hope you enjoy it as much as those who know and love us will.

BY PAMELA JO BOWMAN, MESA ARIZONA — History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought. — Etienne Gilson. History. That is what I have been absorbed in this last week. The history of our nation, our culture, our humanity. I am beginning to understand the danger of education. …

BY PAMELA JO BOWMAN, MESA ARIZONA — Recently, I had conversations with two people who thought that what I wrote was directed at them. They were worried I was upset with them. I had to explain, as diplomatically as I could, that they needed to get over themselves. OK, I admit I am not too …

The unexamined life is not worth living.       Socrates (469 BC – 399 BC)       in Plato, Dialogues, Apology

BY PAMELA JO BOWMAN, MESA ARIZONA — I love research. We have a big sheet of butcher paper on the wall above our worktable. On the table are about 10 books all about our most recent subject. Most of our research is about two ladies. To get started, we divided them up. They are both …

BY PAMELA JO BOWMAN, MESA, ARZONA — I was writing a script for the opening segment on a documentary I have been working on for seven years. I was researching and came upon the life of two very inspiring people who lived 400 years ago. Thus has begun another new project. In the process of …

PAMELA JO BOWMAN – MESA ARIZONA–Sometimes, when I am talking to people, I really believe I know what they are thinking by how they react physically and by how they say what they say. As a screenwriter, I have been taught that 95% of the story is carried in the nonverbal, in the visuals. Only …

BY PAMELA JO BOWMAN – MESA ARIZONA- Well, this week was enlightening in so many ways and it has just begun! Yesterday I read a paper inviting parents to an evening to educate them about current drugs, drug use and how to pay attention to subtle behavior changes. I grew up in the 6o’s. I …