Dear Life, I started 2023 at the art table, painting in watercolor, collaging, and writing art-poems. Also cooked a healthy meal: Veggies /Tofu after eating leftover pizza for lunch. Ah, the endings and beginnings of the New Year! Today I call new cancer center to find out when my appointments for bloodwork, treatments, and to discuss Petscan with oncologist. The work of sobriety, creativity, health and treating cancer continues daily. All is good.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Watercolors 01.01.2023

Dear Life, I will drive another 800 miles to sit at Chez Pierre with Marilyn and Sandy to eat my favorite dessert. A perfect wrap up for an amazing 2022: Patient #1 in Phase Two of an Immunotherapy Clinical Trial that is helping me live “well” with cancer; hopefully will cure. Happy vacations with family and friends, including my beautiful daughter Tracy. Writing Love Letters and making art. Completions and new beginnings. My Life Force carries me in grace and guides me with love. Thank you for everything.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

PRM 12.23.2022

Dear Life, These pics were recently sent to me from BF Jay Dee. We were at Souen (now defunct fave eatery) in NYC on 12.30.19. Whatever was on our IPhones was of great interest! We’ve had an enduring friendship since 1987 finding its roots in Brooklyn, NYC and growing over the decades. I’m grateful for my friendships and the “memory banks” of our electronic devices.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

PRM & Jay Dee in NYC 12.30.2019

Dear Life, When the delicious cookies my friends, sister and daughter gave me for Christmas become breakfast, I know I have crossed over the line into “Cookie Holi-Daze”. Nothing else to say except “Breakfast dessert is yummy in my tummy”.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Dear Life, I arrived home yesterday after a wonderful road trip. Unpacked, grocery shopped, did laundry and ate dinner in front of the TV: Enchiladas with Red and Green from La Choza. This morning the sound of sleet and snow woke me. A distant cry from the sun and 76 degrees in CA! Toes (and the rest of me) are comfy and happy to stay in and have a quiet day. Rest, rejuvenate, remember 2022 year’s end ritual. Grateful to be alive.
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

PRM 12.28.2022

Dear Life, I have had a wonderful and new experience of Christmas with my friends Marilyn and Sandy MacGregor in the CA desert. They gave me the red carpet treatment! Thank you! Today, I fire up Blue Angel and head towards Santa Fe. Hopefully, I will get a room in Winslow, AZ at La Posada Hotel. With luck, there will be a cancellation so there can be a bed at the inn for me. Sending out Hotel Angels before me. It’s a Road Trip Day!
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

PRM with Phillip K. Smith III, Art Installation at Palm Springs Art Museum 12.24.2022

Dear Life, Wishing everyone a happy, healthy, heart-filled with love holiday! 72 degrees and sunny in Indio. A new kind of Christmas for me. I’m loving it! Santa and his elves plowed into this cactus on their way north and they lost their hats! hoHoHO!
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Dear Life, I am up early to pack Blue Angel. I was raised Catholic and the story of the Three Kings following the night star across the desert comes to mind. My road trip takes me across the mountains and high deserts of NM, AZ and CA. I feel freedom, gratitude, peace, and a powerful Life Force. My thoughts goes out to family and friends across the miles. The Spirit of love is with me and you. The license plate holder that came with the car says:
FEEL THE LOVE!
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Blue Angel

Dear Life, Today I’ll have the last doctor’s appointment of 2022, my yearly examination with the wonderful Terri Selvage, who has kept my parts together for years. Then I prepare for a Road Trip to Indio, CA where I’ll visit close friends for the holidays. This is a very different climate for me to be in (CA desert) for Christmas. I have always been home with family in CT or with friends in Santa Fe. But this year, something new is on the horizon.
Let the road emerge and the temperature rise into the 70’s! Yay!
Yours Truly, Pamela Rose

Ink Drawing placed on Alpaca Blanket