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Pam Portland, novelist and blogger
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Fifty states in the rear view mirror and
Hundreds of blog posts ahead of me.
Find my real-life adventures and my #OnTheForest novels at PamPortland.org
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I wrote four novels.
They live here: pamportland.org/ontheforest/
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Today let’s thank the rangers at Great Basin National Park, #Nevada. Remote, dark and beautiful. Let’s thank them for preserving the Park and enhancing the visitor experience. #ParkChat
November 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Looks like I had some settings messed up anyway, so no one but me could post actual messages in "ParkChat Central". It seems that I got it fixed now! #ParkChat
November 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
A4: My camera #ParkChat
November 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Gotta love a pie that’s worth a journey. #ParkChat
A1 If you are stuck roughly mid-way between Mt Rainier, North Cascades & Olympic NPs the best pie comes from Remlinger Farms, Carnation WA. But I've just discovered you need to plan ahead. My mission has been to obtain a peach-raspberry, but we'll have to settle for pumpkin & cherry #parkchat
November 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A1: The correct answer is key lime pie. Special recognition for chocolate covered key lime pie on a stick, but for that, you’d have to spend Thanksgiving at Dry Tortugas NP (or possibly near Biscayne NP). #ParkChat
Q1 #ParkChat Several years ago the topic of pies came up on the chat. Inexplicably and without warning something called #PieChatBot took over our chat with 4-5 pie Qs and has never reappeared. Since then we ask this Q for #Thanksgiving: What’s your favorite pie for the holiday?
November 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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For #Thanksgiving today #ParkChat will operate on our “Holiday Schedule”. We’ll ask one question an hour for six hours beginning now at 9 AM ET. Jump on as your schedule allows. There will not be a regular chat tonight. We will return on 12/03 with @btarrington.bsky.special as our special guest host
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Need a little quiet time during the holiday weekend? Check out this #WriteStuff member of the #WritingCommunity!
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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I made a list and it was checked at least thrice (though only once by me).

Next month's prompts, #TimeTravelAuthors! My holiday wish is to see you then! #WritingCommunity #WritingQs #HashtagGames #WritingPrompts #TimeTravelAuthorsQ #TimeTravelAuthorsQs
November 26, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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I've got 38 different holidays right here! Check out Lollipop Celebrates: Deluxe Edition! Available at www.adventuresoflollipop.com or as an e-book from my Ko-fi site www.ko-fi.com/adventuresoflollipop . #writestuff
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Thanks @kww.bsky.social for hosting tonight's Holiday #WriteStuff. Thankful for YOU!
November 26, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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A2 Yup! Got a whole book about it! #writestuff
November 26, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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#WriteStuff A4 This is a harder question than I thought it would be ... but it's Barbara Kingsolver's "Demon Copperhead".
November 26, 2025 at 2:35 AM
In the #WriteStuff holiday theme, we decided to break into the Thanksgiving pie supply since there are two of us and three pies in the house.
November 26, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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November 26, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Hey #WriteStuff, what does it say that we are right up there with #GayPorn?
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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November 26, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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#WriteStuff
For better or worse, the holidays are upon us. Let's talk.

But first ... who are you? Why are you here?
November 26, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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#WriteStuff tonight
#WriteStuff Genuinely surprised I haven't done this one before, but for better or worse, the holidays are upon us.

Let's talk.
November 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Hola! Lollipop and friends visit Mexico in this #adventuresoflollipop classic from 2009! 🇲🇽
November 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
#TimeTravelAuthors #Day25
There’s not much time for shopping in my timelines.
November 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
I always say you can tell a lot about a person based on if their favorite comedy film is “Airplane,” “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” or “Wedding Crashers.”
The movie listed at #1 is so incredibly misplaced that it calls into question the veracity of the entire list. It belongs on the list, yes, but SO MUCH further down. An absolute, credibility-wrecking flub. Boo, @variety.com! Boo!

variety.com/lists/best-c...
The 100 Best Comedy Movies of All Time
Variety's list of the 100 best comedy movies of all time includes 'Annie Hall,' 'Pretty Woman,' 'Waiting for Guffman' and 'Young Frankenstein.'
variety.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Tomorrow, as in Tuesday, for those who see this notice not on Monday.
That's tomorrow night, for those of you that haven't been paying attention.

#WriteStuff
#WriteStuff Genuinely surprised I haven't done this one before, but for better or worse, the holidays are upon us.

Let's talk.
November 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Can’t deny it - they’re a-comin’!
#WriteStuff
#WriteStuff Genuinely surprised I haven't done this one before, but for better or worse, the holidays are upon us.

Let's talk.
November 24, 2025 at 1:12 AM
One of my last late-autumn tasks was to clean out all the vacated bird houses so they’ll be ready for new arrivals next spring.
November 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM