HOT FLASH

Hot Flash friends, Rita Tritabaugh and Julie Branch pose in front of Rita's paintings in St. Paul, MN, with my book and a wise woman that Julie made to celebrate Rita's 50th birthday.

"Thanks again for your wonderful book and sharing the stories of so many women. Risa and I have journeyed through a lot in the past 25 + years and it will be exciting to see where the next years take us!" Julie

Here's an excerpt from a letter Kim Tinsley wrote and one of her poems following:

"HOT FLASH feels like a good visit. And an embrace. And a rare opportunity to read the thoughts of women who probably don't get asked very often, if at all, about what it feels like to walk the path from innocence to experience, what it is to negotiate the phases of a human life in a female body, what it is to live a woman's life."

places in the heart
no.3

the force unseen
that beats my
heart
breaks it too,
pieces
in
creasing
the number of places
places
where love resides

Kim Tinsley 2005

HOT FLASH Is Available from Pamela's Shopping Cart!

The word is spreading quickly about this wonderful book, HOT FLASH: A CELEBRATION, which is now available only through my website. I can brag, because it contains the work of 50 amazing women from 20's to 80's: stories, dolls, paintings about life-changing experiences.

We have so much encouragement and inspiration to share with each other--you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll want to share this with your friends.

It's a seven-year labor of love on my part, encompassing my move to the West Coast and major life changes. Because I self-publish and color printing costs are up, it's truly a labor of love on behalf of woman everywhere. Only $25, plus $5 shipping, and I can fit another one of my other inspiring books in the Priority envelope with it for one shipping charge.


Feel free to use the HOT FLASH questionnaire with your groups and friends to generate more stories, art work, and support.

If you'd like to share with the wider world, please email your stories and images to me at: pamela@pamelahastings.com, and I'll add to my FaceBook Hot Flash page. Together, we can Heat Up the World!..and it won't be climate change.

I've lowered the prices on some of my previous books to make them more accessible in these tough economic times. Shameless Commerce, I know, but I need to support my Art habit...please continue to participate!

HOT FLASH

Questionnaire: What does the term HOT FLASH mean to you? What images do you see? Associations? When you were young, how did you think about women over 25/40/60? What did you always dream of doing? Have you done it, and if so, would you tell us about how you were able to fulfill your dream? Have you done/accomplished anything since you turned 25/40/60 that has surprised you, surprised your family or other people? If so, how has that achievement changed how you see yourself? Has it changed your remaining aspirations?

What advice at your age now....would you give to yourself at age....? Would the younger you have listened to the older you? How would that have changed the way your life is now? Do you know that women can lose their hair, too? What is Woman's heaviest burden? Greatest Joy? What was/is your favorite age and why? What do you wish you'd known sooner? What is your favorite form of self-expression or what would you like to try?

If you knew you were going to die tomorrow, what, if anything, would you regret not having done? What inspiration would you like to share with other women? Is it better to be a man or a woman?

I am looking for contributions of short stories, poems, essays, answers to the questions, images of ANY art form that you have created or that you feel would be inspiring to other women and express the theme of HOT FLASH in the broadest sense.

Please email me with any questions, send images with as much detail as possible: good quality jpg's can be emailed to me at pamela@pamelahastings.com or you can burn tifs to a CD and mail to me at 3007 South Laurel St., Port Angeles, WA 98362 Please include a picture of yourself and mailing and email information for you...I will edit.

Sending your information and images to me implies that you agree to participate in the book. Each participant will receive two copies of the finished book, so include information for me to mail them to you.The project will take shape over the next four months, with planned publication in the spring/summer of 2010. The format will take shape as I compile the raw material. I'll keep posting examples here for inspiration for all of us.

Join the Fun!

I started the HOT FLASH book in 2004 and was interrupted by my big mid-life change: moving to the West Coast and living as a single woman again.


Finally I am ready to complete this very important task and am looking for additional contributors of of images and thoughts. The following questionnaire may help to direct your thinking. Feel Free to share this with others. I am interested in hearing from all kinds of people, about all kinds of experiences. I am hoping that this book will be beautiful and inspiring...the kind of book I would like to find and buy.

Above, BRING IT ON: Anne Marie Koval



HOT FLASH: Pamela Hastings