An old photo of Pamela at her typewriter from the 70s

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

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The Drive To Publish and Other Existential Dilemmas

The only way I could prove that I existed, or at least increase the odds, was if others – thousands of others – acknowledged it

I envied kids on family sitcoms like Leave it to Beaver. No one could dispute the fact of their existence; it was right there on the television screen!

Op Eds & Essays

The Drive To Publish and Other Existential Dilemmas

I envied kids on family sitcoms like Leave it to Beaver. No one could dispute the fact of their existence; it was right there on the television screen!

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