Pam Frampton

St. John's

Columnist, Researcher and Editor at Freelance

Writer/editor. Happy wanderer. Avid reader. Columnist for the Winnipeg Free Press, and Postmedia. Level 2 sommelier training. [email protected]

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Articles

PAM FRAMPTON: For Afghan girls and women, our silence is seen as complicity

1 week ago | saltwire.com | Pam Frampton

Advertisement 1As Taliban regime makes it harder for Afghan girls and women, a generation of wasted potential must wait for international community's help • • Article contentI went for a walk in the sun the other day with a man who was not my husband, relative or chaperone. (Although I do have a husband — a man I married as an adult, of my own free will.)We made eye contact. I wore a T-shirt, shorts and sneakers, my head bare. I could have sung out loud if I wanted.
PAM FRAMPTON: Why summer’s when you come to your senses

2 weeks ago | saltwire.com | Pam Frampton

Advertisement 1Warm, sunny weather makes you come alive after a long, dark winter, writes Pam Frampton • • Article contentMy neighbours have come out of hibernation, and so have I. People you rarely saw during the harsh, closed-in months of winter are out in their backyards in shorts and T-shirts and sunglasses, tilling soil, feeding chickens, watering gardens, painting things that need to be painted.
Opinion: AI keeps pushing the boundaries

2 weeks ago | winnipegfreepress.com | Pam Frampton

At a time when it’s increasingly difficult to discern the fabricated from the real, is it any wonder so many of us are yearning for something authentic? We are craving authentic foods, authentic cultural experiences, authentic relationships as we get in touch with our authentic selves. No wonder “authentic” was named word of the year in 2023 by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
PAM FRAMPTON: Theft of public art, like stolen Amelia Earhart statue, is a crime against us all

3 weeks ago | saltwire.com | Pam Frampton

Advertisement 1Statue of Amelia Earhart was stolen from Harbour Grace, where she took off on her bid to be the first woman to fly solo across Atlantic • • Article contentThere’s an empty plinth in the Town of Harbour Grace, N.L., where aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart once stood. Well, not Earhart herself, but a bronze statue made by Luben Boykov and erected in 2007.
PAM FRAMPTON: A spring ritual I can do without is renegotiating telecoms service

1 month ago | saltwire.com | Pam Frampton

Skip to ContentAdvertisement 1As people try to save money each year, they begin the dance of trying to find cheaper telecommunication service deals, writes Pam Frampton • • Article contentIf your household is like ours, “spring” (no matter what the thermostat says) is a time to dust off the cobwebs — literally and figuratively — and try to streamline life a bit.
Opinion: Haunted by the vagaries of fate

1 month ago | winnipegfreepress.com | Pam Frampton

My husband and I kept going back to the scene. Went back to ensure there was no one struggling in the dark pond, fighting for life, swallowing water while being dragged down, his sodden coat like an anchor. Screaming into the void. Pam Frampton photo This small pond looks serene on a sunny day but was the site of a recent harrowing water rescue.
PAM FRAMPTON: My cellphone has become a millstone

1 month ago | saltwire.com | Pam Frampton

Advertisement 1The constant barrage of alerts we receive every day on our cell phones can be harmful, so it may be time to cut back, says Pam Frampton • • Article contentThe constant notifications are starting to grate on my nerves. Ping! Someone’s trying to reach you in Messenger. Ping! Ping! Duolingo won’t wait — it’s time to do your language lesson. Ping! Ping! Ping! Ping! Someone just posted cute photos of a grandchild in a family text thread. Whirrrrrrr.
PAM FRAMPTON: Feeling like a tourist in your own town

1 month ago | saltwire.com | Pam Frampton

Advertisement 1After being away from NL while visiting Italy, Pam Frampton is wandering St. John's with the eyes of a tourist • • Article contentAfter being away for two months, I am looking at St. John’s with fresh eyes. Walking downtown the other day, it almost felt as if I was seeing the city for the first time. Despite the patchy grey skies, there were invigorating pops of colour everywhere. The red chairs outside Rocky Mountain Chocolate.
Opinion: After 20 years of Alzheimer’s, the losses pile up

1 month ago | winnipegfreepress.com | Pam Frampton

It’s been two decades since my siblings and I began to notice our mother was slightly off-kilter. She was having trouble following explanations, becoming more gullible about things she heard, and starting to repeat herself. Nuance and subtlety were becoming lost to her.
PAM FRAMPTON: In an Italian piazza, worlds collide

1 month ago | saltwire.com | Pam Frampton

Advertisement 1Two little girls, from two very different worlds, encountered in an Italian piazza, and well wishes to both as they begin their journeys • • Article contentOn this night in Lecce, Italy is warm and fragrant, the sky an indigo arch pierced with bright stars. It smells of freshness, of burgeoning leaves and flowering shrubs, with urban undernotes of cigarettes and perfume.