Profile of Pam Frampton

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• Up at ours
  Families are like fudge - mostly sweet, with a few nuts. - Author unknown When Dad walked in the front door the other night, I was standing ...
• A book in the hand is worth two wireless reading...
  "A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can ...
• Sextually active
  "I plan on offering nudes to any guy that wants to give me notes from the past five weeks of class." - Text message from the website Txts Frm ...
• Reaching for the stars
  "Fame … what you like is in the limo Fame … what you get is no tomorrow Fame … what you need you have to borrow" - From ...
• For heaven's sake
  "Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky …" - John Lennon's "Imagine" "I don't know what my ...
• Room with a loo
  "There is nothing which has been yet contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." - Samuel Johnson The ...
• Divided we fall
  Hey! No fair! Afghan detainees in the custody of Canadians in Kandahar will be getting the H1N1 vaccine right about now, the Canadian Press ...
• Not our finest hour
  "Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully." - Richard Bach, American author You don't have to ...
• Danny, and the promise of glasnost
  "Call the 1-800 media line, wait days for a response. E-mail your questions in. The answers are vetted … often by the (Prime Minister's ...
• Straight from the horses message track
  "… paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people." - ...
• Something wicked this way comes
  "'Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world …" - ...
• Theres a way, but is there a will?
  Last week's column about Bullet, a Burin Peninsula dog who spent nine years at the end of a six-foot chain, sparked anger, outrage and tears. It ...
• At the end of their rope
  "Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight." - Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), missionary, theologian, ...
• Were still paying for it
  "Eddy Campbell is settling in very well at UNB - he is off to an energetic start and shows all the promise of being a great president, as I ...
• Docs on the run
  Trying to figure out exactly what it is Dennis O'Keefe is going to do if he's elected mayor of St. John's again is a bit like playing pin the ...
• Flights of imagination
  "The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are." - Samuel ...
• Just for the spell of it
  I have a spelling checker. It came with my PC. It plane lee marks four my revue Miss steaks aye can knot see ... - From a poem posted on ...
• Were part of the solution
  "I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism. … Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active ...
• Flashes of brilliance
  We remain committed to making our government more responsible, transparent and accountable than any other in our province's history. - From the ...
• The oasis at the end of the street
  "But I would ask one question, Your Worship, and I will leave it at this: how do you create a revenue stream from a green space?" - former St. ...
• The good, the bad and the ugly
  "We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe." - Johann Wolfgang von ...
• Keeping it real
  As September's municipal election looms like a heavy bank of fog outside The Narrows, I applaud the St. John's Board of Trade for trying to gauge ...
• Inside the walls
  There are no vacancies at the Lakeside Hotel in St. John's, but fresh guests keep arriving and they somehow get packed in. They show up under ...
• Wake me up before you go go
  "The life of the creative man is led, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes." - Susan Sontag ...
• We didnt all sign up for the cheerleading squad
  Someone once told me a story about how they played in a provincial high school athletic tournament years ago against a team from La Scie. What ...
• What price to pay for cruelty?
  The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?" - Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), English philosopher ...
• The sentence that deserves an exclamation
  When former RNC superintendent Bob Garland pleaded guilty to sexual assault in a Corner Brook court last week and was given the most benign of ...
• Risking life and limb and liability?
  Every year in this province, there's an influx of adventurers who show up wanting to cross the Atlantic in rowboats and dinghies in an attempt to ...
• Myths and legends, hoaxes and lies
  Hi, my name is Amy Bruce. I am 7 years old, and I have a large tumour on my brain and severe lung cancer. The doctors say I will die soon if this ...
• Found poems from File No. 06-29204
  It's amazing the number of places you can find poetry, just sitting there out in the open, waiting for you to stumble upon it. On signs, ...