Community Green: An unplanned vacation due to the smoke
By Pamela Noel Special to Plumas News When the smoke became too thick for me to happily breathe, and the…
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Opinion: Is this where we’re headed?
By Pamela Noel Special to Plumas News Emotional Technician Wanted. Qualifications: Extreme empathy, good communication skills, and technical expertise with…
Read moreOpinion: The idea of normal is shifting
By Pamela Noel Special to Plumas News Nothing lasts. I lose a vase of flowers when it wilts. Leaves brown…
Read morePutting it off and diving in
By Pamela Noel A column special to Plumas News Since I am, at the moment, interested in completing things, I…
Read moreWhat now?
By Pamela Noel We are at a turning point as a nation. We are not at a turning point of…
Read moreGreater together with respect
By Pamela Noel A friend recently shared that she had been sent an article about the origins of the COVID-19…
Read moreTreasure trove of childhood
By Pamela Noel Special to Plumas News She was eight years old, donned in brightly colored balloon prints on her…
Read moreWe are in it together!
My calendar is becoming empty. For the first two weeks in March, much was written on it — lunch with…
Read moreA tool for our mental kit
We have a choice. All of us. It may be a choice that changes, but it is always available. Being…
Read moreWhat really lingers
The sound was deafening. Thousands milled in the streets, on the sidewalks, hanging from trees, and sitting in balconies. This…
Read moreWho Do We Blame?
“I want to blame somebody,” my buddy said during our morning reverie together. “I want to blame the corporate structure…
Read moreMy encounter with Johnny Unitas at a 49er game
I was an active kid. Climbing 40 feet up into a tree, leaving home each day to roam around a…
Read moreLabeling is for jars
“Why does he think that way? How can he really believe that?” Overhearing these questions at a table next to…
Read moreWho Are We Humans?
“Who do you think I am?” she asked. Having this conversation on the first day of a new year, her…
Read moreDarkness as a tool for self-acceptance
“The darkness is so dark, “a friend said. “ And we haven’t even eaten dinner yet. I feel like a…
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