Pamela Gibson

My favorite season arrives at the end of March. Full of hoopla and hype, Major League Baseball takes over the sports channels, bringing crotch-scratching, spit-spewing, dirt-kicking behemoths right into our living rooms. And I love ‘em all. My team is the San Francisco Giants—winner of three World Series in five years. The last few years … Read more

I love Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the zaniness, the hidden messages, the tripped-out quality that makes you wonder what happens next. The Mad Hatter’s tea party scene is one of my favorites, perhaps because of the characters (the ones drawn by Disney and the ones portrayed in film). I hosted a table at a Tea … Read more

I don’t know if it’s authors, or if this happens to everyone, but every day I get a friend request on Facebook from a different unknown male. He lists no friends, has one or two pictures on his page, has no posts, and is always a widower. I promptly delete. Scammers really want to friend … Read more

I’m stealing this from my friend Pam Sheble who must subscribe to a humor website because she’s always coming up with interesting-and mostly funny-emails. These bits of trivia all fall in the “who knew?” category and maybe the “who cares?” category. I certainly didn’t know most of them, but they’re kind of fun. 1. Money … Read more

I can’t think of anything more self-defeating than feeling sorry for oneself. And yet we all have days when we want to curl into a little ball and let the world pass by. I call this Sow Bug Syndrome. Sow Bugs are tiny gray creatures. When threatened, they curl into a tight little ball the … Read more