Pam Reynolds
Senior Content Creator | Massachusetts | She/Her
Pam is an author and journalist with a long and eclectic career. A reporter and editor at The Boston Globe for over a decade, she has worked many years as a freelance writer and contributor for WBUR, the Harvard Business School, Boston University, and The Barr Foundation, among others. In addition to writing, Pam enjoys painting, sculpting, and pulling an occasional tarot card for friends.
Recent Posts
Jan 29 2025
Beneath our feet, the earth’s surface warms and cools with the seasons. But lower down, soil and rock stay at a constant temperature – in Massachusetts, 55 degrees. According to Zeyneb Magavi, this simple geological fact is a grand opportunity to shift into a new clean energy age, tackling climate change and lowering energy costs…
Jan 9 2025
Part of my old high school just burned down. Palisades Charter High School in Los Angeles was better known as “Pali” when I attended it decades ago. It sat on a hill just a few blocks from the Pacific Ocean and was renowned for its carefree surfer dudes and careless “valley” girls. Its location in…
Dec 9 2024
Caitlin Peale Sloan lives in a typical New England Colonial house with sage green vinyl siding, a pitched roof, and a wraparound porch. It’s the kind of home that graces the streets of towns across New England, from Lewiston, Maine, to Malden, Massachusetts, where Peale Sloan happens to live. But one thing sets Peale Sloan’s…
Dec 6 2024
On a frosty morning last December, thousands of Rhode Island residents woke up to an increasingly familiar aggravation. Another strong storm had ripped across the state overnight, toppling trees and powerlines like toothpicks. The power was out – again. Like New England as a whole, Rhode Island is experiencing more tornadoes, tropical storms, flash floods,…
Oct 17 2024
People are still digging out in Florida and North Carolina after two powerful hurricanes, Helene and Milton, hit this month. Neighborhoods were flooded, trees and power lines were toppled, and rising rivers even swept away some homes. The devastation was so striking it would be easy to imagine everyone felt it equally. But the fact…
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