tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11009221607626504592011-04-21T17:26:28.448-05:00Samples of Pamela Price's professional writing.P.Pricenoreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1100922160762650459.post-67152230143013979332008-08-19T23:34:00.004-05:002008-08-20T18:09:00.488-05:00

Now guest blogging at EatDrinkBetter.com. • Just Who Will 'Eat the View' at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? (Eatdrinkbetter.com, 12 August 2008)• A Victory Garden Planted in Patio Pots (Eatdrinkbetter.com, 20 August 2008)

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(Was looking for something online and stumbled upon this old bit that I wrote a couple of years back...)Lemme say upfront that the second half of the title was not mine...Rotary International is alive and kicking, thank you very much, but this article ("Next Generation Civic Groups: Community Involvement in a Post Rotary Club Era," January 2005) that I wrote for Next American City reflects some

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So I stayed away longer than I thought...hey, raising a toddler is tough...but that's okay...some time to read and think lead me to create this. Check it out.

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By Pamela Price Contributing writerHill Country ViewInto the region’s rising anti-encroachment debate comes a new local association hoping to take an active role in curbing uncontrolled growth along the Boerne Stage Road/Scenic Loop corridor.The Hill Country Planning Association, an umbrella group for several Northwest Bexar County organizations, recently completed a two-page “Citizen’s Master

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By Pamela PriceContributing WriterHill Country ViewHistory is tricky. It can fashion one aspect of culture into an icon and obscure almost entirely another facet worthy of acclaim. Take for instance, the Old Spanish Trail (OST), a 1920s era auto highway, and precursor to modern IH-10, that traversed the nation from Florida to California. However, unlike Route 66, which was created in the same

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The second in an informal series of smart growth related stories for The Hill Country View.By Pamela PriceContributing writerDriving up Boerne Stage Road from Leon Springs past the generic strip malls and roadside car wash, just as the hills begin to fill the Texas sky, one encounters three distinctive signs of the community’s heritage. Near the first big curve of the winding two-lane roadway,

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By Pamela PriceContributing writer, The Hill Country View Note that this article is the first in a series designed to elucidate growth issues in the southern end of the Texas Hill Country. The hope is that by thoughtfully describing the players and introducing readers to smart growth notions, citizens will be better prepared to discuss these matters openly.To anyone who followed the battle to

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By Pamela PriceContributing writer, The Hill Country ViewFor some of us, it may be difficult to imagine folks developing a strong sense of community around such a humble thing as building a schoolhouse.Yet in the 1880s, led by three ranchers named Max Aue, Arthur Blinker and H.W. Toepperwein, early Leon Springs residents did precisely that. Motivated by a desire to provide their children with a

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By Pamela PriceContributing writer, The Hill Country ViewOn a pretty morning, they pop up like wildflowers. Some appear en masse, others take the road alone, yet each rider is compelled to ditch Saturday chores and errands in favor of the spoke and the wheel. One might dub it the “call of the ride,” that strange force that urges busy professionals to hit the road on a bike or motorcycle. Whatever

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By Pamela PriceContributing writer, The Hill Country ViewTwo years ago, hoping to revive a dwindling congregation, new pastor Dan Allen encouraged his Leon Springs Baptist Church flock to think of innovative ways to reach out to the community. In response, Rebecca Muegge, a longtime cyclist, and her husband, Frank, pitched a novel idea to Allen: a twice-monthly breakfast for weekend riders.“We’d

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By Pamela PriceContributing writer, The Hill Country ViewSurrounded by a Quizno’s, a package store and a saddlery, the Sew Special Quilts storefront suggests it’s just one more small business, one of several that comprise The Market at Boerne Stage. Yet walk through the front door, past the colorful fabric and sewing machines, and you will discover at the back of the shop a bright, cheerful

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By Pamela PriceMothering MagazineAugust 2006 Online BulletinHealthcare practitioners are becoming increasingly savvy to the fact that moms may encounter more than just the "baby blues" in the weeks and months after birth. Postpartum anxiety, characterized by classic symptoms such as hot or cold flashes, dizziness, tremors and feelings of helplessness, is an often frightening condition that may

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By Pamela PriceThe Next American CityIn 1999, a twenty-something engineer named Bill Carson faced an increasingly common decision: to stay or go. Having moved to St. Louis seven years earlier in a job transfer, he didn’t have strong ties to Missouri. He toyed with the idea of returning home to Pennsylvania or venturing to a seemingly more exciting city like Seattle, but St. Louis had started to

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