Pamela Ewen

Off again – a mini-tour this time, only one week. First, Jackson, Mississippi. Took I-55 North and a pebble shot up from a MAC truck, shattering the passenger side window (where I was sitting)! Sigh. Shattering…not just cracking. But we rolled...

Hey Kokomo! This is make-believe, a beautiful mirage, an island built on sand. Las Vegas is fun, lazy, easy, unreal. But scratch any preconceived notions you may have, the old vision of this place. It’s changed. Hello-ooo Las Vegas! The huge fantastical...

Drove yesterday from Pismo Beach, where we woke up to a foggy chill, to Bakersfield, where the temperature mid-afternoon was 107 degrees. Every rare rustle of breeze felt like a furnace. You could just melt on the asphalt if you stood in one place too...

Got to Monterey just in time to see the Sunset. This is John Steinbeck country — remember he not only wrote Grapes of Wrath, but also Cannery Row and many other wonderful novels. This is a man who wrote from his heart, followed ideas. His biggest...

Driving from Santa Rosa, to Sacramento, to Stockton has a middle-earth feel. You’re leaving the foggy coastlands, mountainous terrain for the heart of the state, the flatland center where drama is left behind. Visited Family Christian Bookstore...

Goodbye Napa – hello Sonoma! Found two good independent bookstores in the town of Sonoma. Sonoma is a picturesque town with a slower pace than Napa. Harmony reigns. And it’s unusual to find two really great independent stores in a town of...

Long flight from New Orleans to San Francisco, and long drive from SFO airport to Napa, through bumper to bumper rush hour traffic. Beautiful sunset as we arrived though. Relaxing after preparations–having to ship boxes of books and bookmarks to...

Writing the book is the easy part. But then you have to let readers know it’s there. My novel Secret of the Shroud releases September 1, 2001. So Jimmy and I are going to hit the trail on a new Driving Ms. Pamela book tour to promote Secret. We...

Sometimes I wonder if other writers have organized methods of writing, and whether they write one book at a time, and how they know when they’ve come to the end, and how they feel about exposing themselves in their words. Right now I’m looking...

Has God hard-wired our brains with a built-in moral compass? I think so. I believe that we are born with some basic moral instincts. It’s interesting to me that so many child psychologists agree that children evidence this at a very early age, long...

Last week I wrote that Christianity is the only world religion based upon knowable facts. That is, it’s the only one for which witnesses have left written testimony that crucial events on which the religion is based actually occurred. In the case...