BY PAMELA JO BOWMAN, MESA, ARIZONA — Growing up in an Italian family, holidays, birthdays, weddings, week-ends, sometimes Tuesdays meant family and food and noise and music. That is what I remember. I also remember drying dishes, a lot of dishes. There were many dish towels that became too wet to dry with, but perfect …
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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.
History Erased
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. …
Get Over Yourself
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 …
Quote for the Day
The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates (469 BC – 399 BC) in Plato, Dialogues, Apology
Two Ladies
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 …
Forgive
BY PAMELA JO BOWMAN, MESA ARIZONA — At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable. — Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer Tonight Ciera was teaching us the importance of self-mastery. I believe it took all of her self-mastery not to clock us in the head! The poor girl. She …
Hurt Me with Hurt
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 …
The Great Pumpkin
Traditions! I imagine we will always have "Pumpkin Night." I have two Peter Pans and Tinkerbell living in my house. Some take this carving thing way too seriously! Others don’t take it serious at all, until someone else takes it seriously. Then we have, "Girls just want to have fun!” Tell me true. Whose pumpkin …
What Is So
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 …