Op Eds & Essays
Pamela Jane is an author of over thirty children’s books, and an essayist whose work has appeared in The NY Times, The Wall Street Journal, The NY Daily News, Writer's Digest, The Independent, and The Writer. Pamela has also published humor in The Daily Drunk, Erma Bombeck, Brevity, The Satirist, and others.
Photo: The author in 1975 by Jun Kobashigawa
No One Feels Sorry For You When You’re Living In Tuscany
I cried when I couldn’t find thread to sew on a button, and sent desperate emails to friends back home. I needed help – A surrogate mom, a crooked cook, a robot, anything!
I Can’t Have A Baby Because I Have A 12:30 Lunch Meeting
I agonized about whether I should back out. After all, there was an “opt out” clause in the contract I had signed.