by Pamela Beason | Apr 10, 2012 | Natural Wonders, The Writing Life
When I took a creative writing class in high school, our instructor gave us an assignment to choose a natural object like a stone or a stick or a leaf for a “friend” and carry it around with us for a week and talk about what it told us. The other students...
by Pamela Beason | Mar 25, 2012 | Everyday Chaos, Natural Wonders
I love the unexpected, don’t you? Celebrating unusual experiences is part of being a writer. I’ve had a number of unexpected encounters with humans and other animals over the years. Once I was standing at a bus stop in Seattle, along with a number of other...
by Pamela Beason | Mar 11, 2012 | Natural Wonders, Saving Money
Some acquaintances consider me a skinflint because I don’t spend money on a lot of the same things they do. They know I’m not poor. I have money in the bank, but as a self-employed investigator and author, my income is variable and the future is always...
by Pamela Beason | Mar 1, 2012 | Natural Wonders
Perhaps because I’m a fairly small human, I have always been amazed by the miniature life that surrounds us. As a child, I collected bugs. I wanted them to live in little circus tents under my bed. They had other ideas about places they wanted to live. Oh well,...
by Pamela Beason | Feb 25, 2012 | Natural Wonders
I recently spent a week camping on Half Moon Caye, a small island about 50 miles east of mainland Belize. It’s a bird sanctuary (mainly red footed boobies and frigate birds) and a World Heritage Site, not too far from another World Heritage Site, the famous Blue...
by Pamela Beason | Jan 4, 2012 | Natural Wonders, The Writing Life
I went to an avalanche awareness class last night, and while there was a lot of talk about hearing “whumps” and witnessing running cracks and generally being aware of avalanche conditions, there was also a big discussion about the human factor that causes...