Pamela Monk

By Pamela Monk
"Boxing is like a bug"
What makes a neighborhood more than a collection of houses? This is a question that occupies much of Bob Sobocinski’s free time.
One of his answers is Steel City Boxing, Pittsburgh’s only not for profit boxing gym. It is housed in a decommissioned fire hall on Homer Street in Spring Hill, the neighborhood he’s lived in for most of his life. Sobocinski is a sturdy man, not a boxer himself, but someone at home with physical work. He’s not uncontroversial, a...

Water sources create community; without clean fresh water to drink, humans can’t survive. We naturally gather where it can be found. These days, it’s easy to forget how communities are built around water supply; the access to potable water is crucial to the common good- we take it as a right (which tragically can be violated as the community of Flint, Michigan can attest). But long time residents of Spring Hill, a neighborhood on the Northside, remember when gathering the household water supp...

A world premiere of a comedy for all times.

Jun 24, 1990 ... Canoe Camping, Family Style. By Pamela Monk; Pamela Monk, a middle-school teacher in Ithaca, N.Y., is an experienced canoe camper....

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Movies create iconic, mythical teacher figures who, in two or so hours, do both more harm and more good than any actual human could achieve in a lifetime....

PMonkIsTrying #21
THAT THE PROFIT OF ONE MAN BUILDS ON THE DAMAGE OF…
PMonkIsTrying #20
OF THE FORCE OF IMAGINATION
PMonkIsTrying #19 Come sail away!
THAT TO STUDY PHILOSOPHY IS LEARN TO DIE
PMonkIs Trying #17 Fear not?
OF FEAR
Oblivion #7 The Ears Have It
Until I was fifteen or so, I was an amenable child. Seeds of rebellion had been planted, but they didn’t…
Oblivion # 6: Dad Pulls A Plato
I am fairly certain I was raised by pagans. I am also fairly certain that the people who raised me wou...

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A retelling of Boccaccio's 100 stories of the Decameron, with some added work by friends.

This is the site of a group of which I am a founding member. I left State College in 2019, but still stay in touch with the storytelling community there.