2. PAMELA BLOOM is an award-winning journalist, author of five
books, and a brand strategist/copywriter in many fields. Her expertise runs
from print to digital, journalism to marketing.
Pamela began her writing career as one of the first female music critics in New York, publishing as a
Contributing Editor and regular columnist at Musician, High Fidelity, Seven Days and Ovation magazines.
Her profiles, reviews, features, and op eds have also appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times,
New York Post, and the Village Voice, among others.
An expert in adventure and culture-packed destinations, she is the author of four guidebooks—two of
which, Brazil Up Close and Amazon Up Close (Hunter Publishing), won the prestigious Lowell Thomas
Travel Journalism Award for Guidebook of the Year from the Society of American Travel Writers. For four
years she authored a column called “CyberSeer,” for Washington Flyer magazine about travel on the
Internet. She also wrote destination pieces for Diversion, Endless Vacation, Student Traveler, Bride’s, Taxi,
Scanorama (Sweden), and a host of other magazines.
Her profiles on leading thought figures, from CEOs to artists, have appeared in Connoisseur, Elle, New
Age Journal, Hispanic Executive, March, Profile, and Science of Mind magazines, among others.
In recent years Pamela has turned towards content development and brand strategy. As Senior Marketing
Copywriter at Family Circle magazine, she helped create the multimedia sales presentation that won “Best
in Show” at the Business Marketing Association’s 2001 Pro Comm Awards. As Editor at Guideposts, she
developed direct-mail programs and created original products, including an original mystery series, now in
its 24th volume.
For five years at R/GA, she was Senior Copywriter and Content Director of a magazine-style website for
SC Johnson (now called www.RightatHome.com). Among other digital clients have been General Electric,
Subaru, Hilton Hotels, Kraft Foods, Catalent.com, HealthQuest.org, and others.
A former opera singer and classically trained musician, Pamela has also won several awards for fiction.
In 2013-2014, she has become known to thousands around the globe as a dynamic public speaker,
appearing as a presenter for an international figure in the human potential movement, both n live event and
live streaming. Video clips are available upon request.
For more writing samples visit:
www.PamelaBloom.com (business writing)
www.EmpowerYourCreativity.com (editorial consulting)
www.SoulinBloom.net.(inspirational writing)
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38. LEAVING HATE BEHIND
By Pamela Bloom
Op Ed in the International New York Times
Inspired by reading my book The Power of Compassion, a New York Times editor commissioned an op ed piece from me for
the international edition. The trigger was the recent release of the so-called Lockerbie bomber. The editor asked me, how can
we move on from rage in any part of our lives? The piece appeared in 30 countries, in numerous translations, on the weekend
of August 28, 2009.)
The modern world has given us a lot to cope with, but who really has the skills?
The recent whirlwind of emotions caused by Scotland’s release of the Lockerbie bomber has illuminated a universal
psychological problem.
How do we move on from grief and rage?
Loss is inevitable in life. But when the platform is huge -- a terrorist bombing like 9-11, deep financial betrayal like Bernie
Madoff’s, the breakdown of social justice as in Iraq or Rwanda or just a really nasty divorce -- the rage and resentment left
behind is often more cancerous than the event.
