Pam Portland

@PamPortlandWriter
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Fifty states in the rear view mirror and hundreds of blog posts ahead of me.
Find my real-life adventures and my #OnTheForest novels at PamPortland.org
SnarkThis space reserved: future witty retort
SuperpowerKnowing more than you think I know
Not-So-Secret AddictionAll things Lewis & Clark
Between Here And The Channel Islands

Enriching My Life Out on the water it’s mystical.  When sailing under a brilliant sunny sky, a trail of reflecting beams sparkles and flickers its magic upward.  Elsewhere, guided by the fierce str…

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Why does the 🐳 app take an eternity to refresh the feed?

I’ll check back for any replies when they load on Wednesday.

#TimeTravelAuthors #Day5
I write #TimeTravel bc I desperately wish I knew what happened at that point in history. Since I cannot go back myself, I’ll just make it up and let it unfold the way I wish it did.
Faithfully Yours

Soon. Eventually. I’ve visited Yellowstone National Park several times during my adulthood.  I’ve crisscrossed the park (see Five Routes Coming And Going from February 2015) and even been joined by…

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Four paragraphs about that time I slept at the Army War College.
#AcrossTheCountry #Pennsylvania
https://pamportland.org/2021/07/16/washington-slept-here/
Washington Slept Here

One Among Many One side of the United States offers a dramatically different view of American history than the other side.  The entire east coast features colonies stacked upon English colonies, al…

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#WritersCoffeeClub #4May What's the worst thing about being a writer?

When you share
what you write and
no one reads it.

Dreams aren’t always so easy to manage. Neither is being awake.
#OnTheForest #Waldeinsamkeit #Chapter2
https://pamportland.org/2024/05/04/amid-the-lodgepoles-part-18/
Amid The Lodgepoles – Part 18

A synopsis and any pertinent content warnings related to the topics in this novel may be found here: On The Forest. I foolishly allow Saturday night to be spent rehashing what sleep I did get on Fr…

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Halls Of Fame – Part 2

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#WritersCoffeeClub #3May Does your work include pictures, maps or other custom graphics? Share your pics.

Yes, all of my blog posts include images, usually photos, or maps of places I’ve traveled, and even the occasional word clouds.

I also post a #WordlessWednesday post with only photos on a single theme every now and then.

Even Google admits - grudgingly - that it is losing the spam wars. The explosive proliferation of botshit has supercharged the sleazy "search engine optimization" business, such that results to common queries are 50% Google ads to spam sites, and 50% links to spam sites that tricked Google into a high rank (without paying for an ad):

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2024/03/core-update-spam-policies#site-reputation

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