Op Eds & Essays
Pamela Jane is an author of over thirty children’s books, and an essayist whose work has appeared in The NY Times, The Wall Street Journal, The NY Daily News, Writer's Digest, The Independent, and The Writer. Pamela has also published humor in The Daily Drunk, Erma Bombeck, Brevity, The Satirist, and others.
Photo: The author in 1975 by Jun Kobashigawa
I Was Sixteen With Nowhere To Turn
As an adolescent, I was trapped in two bad relationships: the one between my parents, and the one between my conflicted selves. I might have been able to run away from my parents, but how on earth was I going to escape my selves?
I Waited So Long For My Beautiful Daughter
I stared at the infant asleep in my arms. This tiny being, this slender new life, was entirely in my hands.