Pam Portland, novelist and blogger
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Pam Portland, novelist and blogger
@pamportland.org
Fifty states in the rear view mirror and
Hundreds of blog posts ahead of me.
Find my real-life adventures and my #OnTheForest novels at PamPortland.org
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December 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Same! I have a White House Christmas ornament and it is the only one I left in the box of decorations.
December 1, 2025 at 2:22 PM
By “cheaper turkey”, does he mean low-end poultry, or his dear leader?
November 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I missed the first couple posts about your forced move. I’m sorry this is your life for the next month or so.
I’ve been in your shoes more than once. One thing that helped me was taking pix of items I liked, but I couldn’t take w/ me due to space. I write about them on my website which is cathartic.
Behind The Abstersion
Some people may call it downsizing.  Others may define it as cleansing.  Others may view it as purging. Regardless, the more one desires to travel this world, the more one needs to reduce the quant…
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November 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Safe to say, no. But I did a one-night stand (or so he thought) and ten years later we’re sitting having wine in the home we bought a couple years after we married. It’s a good story, so run with whatever you’ve got going on there.
November 30, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I’ve been a character in this story!
November 29, 2025 at 11:33 PM