Pam Frampton

1 week ago | saltwire.com | Pam Frampton

Advertisement 1Rome, writes Pam Frampton, is a city that can spark your imagination, lift your spirits, awe you with its enduring presence and break your heart, all in the same day.  •   •  Article contentTake the fast train from Lecce to Rome and you’ll see buildings recede, replaced by sea, shore and countryside. There’s a chop on the Adriatic, a massive tanker plying the waters between Italy and Albania, so far away as to appear motionless on the horizon.

1 week ago | winnipegfreepress.com | Pam Frampton

The older I get, the closer I come to death. Now, that may sound obvious — with each passing year we grow nearer to the end of life. But I mean it in another way, as well. The older I get, the more I think about death; feel its presence; ponder its many guises and means of approach. I wonder how and when it will come to me and if I will be ready for it.

2 weeks ago | saltwire.com | Pam Frampton

Advertisement oopSkip to ContentAdvertisement 1Lines have been drawn in the sand, writes Pam Frampton, who worries about Canada's future even while on vacation far away  •   •  Article contentWhen you’re watching swallows dart and dive for insects in the rosy sky above the Piazza Sant’Oronzo in Lecce, Donald Trump could be a million miles away.

3 weeks ago | saltwire.com | Pam Frampton

Advertisement 1"The tone that we’re hearing from our former BFFs in the U.S. says it all — the disdain, the contempt, the arrogance," writes Pam Frampton  •   •  Article contentDenmark’s foreign minister nailed it March 29 when he posted a video on social media in response to U.S. Vice-President JD Vance’s recent remarks about the state of things in Greenland.

3 weeks ago | winnipegfreepress.com | Pam Frampton

We are looking at rudimentary tools fashioned by human hunter-gatherers tens of thousands of years ago, when they sheltered in caves on Italy’s heel. I say “rudimentary,” but what a breakthrough those implements must have been — flint and limestone honed to points and used for myriad things: hunting spears, knives to flay animal skins, tools to perforate and engrave clothing and other objects. Their work has a simplistic beauty you can’t help but admire, revealing an impressive ingenuity.