by Pamela Beason | Sep 18, 2011 | Everyday Chaos, The Writing Life
I saw a great blog post the other day about using music to motivate yourself to get off your butt and get out and exercise. That got me thinking about music and how I use it. I frequently want to put myself into a certain frame of mind for writing. This doesn’t...
by Pamela Beason | Apr 4, 2011 | The Writing Life
National Wildlife Week passed a couple of weeks ago and I was feeling insanely jealous of people who are actually out in the wilderness studying wild animals. During the winter or early spring, I usually take a scuba trip to the tropics to commune with marine...
by Pamela Beason | Jan 12, 2011 | Natural Wonders, The Writing Life
The other day I was watching a documentary about the making of a movie called Born Free. Some of you (the older ones) will remember that Born Free was a best-selling book by Joy Adamson about raising Elsa, an orphaned lion cub, and then later returning her to the...
by Pamela Beason | Oct 20, 2010 | Natural Wonders, The Writing Life
Like most people, I love grand vistas–mountains, sea, sky, prairies, city skylines–and there are a lot of grand vistas in the Pacific Northwest where I live. But often it’s the little details that delight me the most–the interplay of light in...