Author: pamela alma weymouth
humor writer, humor writing coach, storyteller, editorial genius, late bloomer
Anne Lamott and the Power of Hope
‘I will not let them defeat me.’ On the Fourth of July, a friend interrupted my doomscrolling to send me a copy of Anne Lamott’s Washington Post column “Does Trumpland chaos bode better times ahead? I say yes. Happy Fourth!” It was a lifeline. Lamott wrote, “I am calling for us to move into a new phase […]
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My Grandmother Stood Up to Nixon—Jeff Bezos Should Take Note
Fifty-four years ago, Katharine Graham defended The Washington Post against presidential threats. Her granddaughter now fears its soul is being sold. Fifty-four years ago, in 1971, my grandmother Katharine Graham, publisher of The Washington Post, risked everything to stand up to a corrupt president. That president sought to destroy her newspaper’s autonomy. Today, faced with another […]
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How We Rise From Ash: One Norcal Family’s Grace Under Fire
First Published on Truthdig, December 2017. When I arrived at the Sonoma wildfire’s ground zero, I expected to find grief, rage, tragedy. Instead, I found a celebration of sorts–a coming together of three generations of a family that was simply grateful to be alive. Two National Guardsmen stood in the morning sun next to a […]
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