Community Green

By Pamela Noel A column special to Plumas News Since I am, at the moment, interested in completing things, I…

By Pamela Noel We are at a turning point as a nation. We are not at a turning point of…

By Pamela Noel A friend recently shared that she had been sent an article about the origins of the COVID-19…

By Pamela Noel Special to Plumas News She was eight years old, donned in brightly colored balloon prints on her…

My calendar is becoming empty. For the first two weeks in March, much was written on it — lunch with…

We have a choice. All of us. It may be a choice that changes, but it is always available. Being…

The sound was deafening. Thousands milled in the streets, on the sidewalks, hanging from trees, and sitting in balconies. This…

“I want to blame somebody,” my buddy said during our morning reverie together. “I want to blame the corporate structure…

I was an active kid. Climbing 40 feet up into a tree, leaving home each day to roam around a…

“Why does he think that way? How can he really believe that?” Overhearing these questions at a table next to…

“Who do you think I am?” she asked. Having this conversation on the first day of a new year, her…

“The darkness is so dark, “a friend said. “ And we haven’t even eaten dinner yet. I feel like a…

She chose to be quiet for two days, speaking to no one, listening to no news, shutting out the world…

“Ping, Ping.” I hear the sound as I enter the realm of “I-person” with my new I-phone. My children insisted…

There was nothing sacred about walls in our home — especially in our bedroom, which my brother and I shared….