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Pat Montandon
I never think about my writing style if, indeed, I have one.

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A Life Beyond Imaginings; Whispers From God

Mar.01.2008

A Life Beyond Imaginings; Whispers From God

Book Passages at 7:00 PM April 7, 2008

A documentary Peace-Kids; The China Trip, as recounted in my newly titled book A Life Beyond Imaginings: Whispers from God, will be shown. The documentary, seen on PBS, has been edited from one hour to thirty minutes for this viewing. Children are invited to bring mail to this event regarding their concerns and actions about global warming. In April, 2008 Children As The Peacemakers will launch Peace 2 The Planet, a contest for kids ages nine to thirteen. Information will be on our web site on March 15, 2008 Peace-kids.org

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PUBLISHED: Apr.10.2007

Oh The Hell Of It All

The brutal breakup of Pat Montandon’s seemingly perfect marriage to multimillionaire Al Wilsey and the loss of her son, was the stuff of gossip columnists’ dreams—full of wealth and beauty, cruelty and betrayal. But her headline grabbing divorce and public ridicule led Montandon to a road beyond her wildest imaginings. Early on, she had transformed herself from an Oklahoma preacher...

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PUBLISHED: Apr.01.2007

Whispers From God (paperback of Oh The Hell Of It All)

After an eleven year marriage to a man she loved beyond reason, a beautiful son, living at the top of the economic scale, an unexpected brutal and public divorce ends it all. At age fifty, broke, her son living with his dad and stepmother, Pat Montandon, indeed, rises from the ashes and in a mystical revelation finds her true calling. Ethiopian famine camps...

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PUBLISHED: Jan.03.1999

Celebrities and Their Angels

Celebrities from Oprah Winfrey to Bishop Tutu sketch their idea of an angel and write about their belief, or not, in angels. Holly Near wrote, in part: We are life at its best and its worst We don't need to look away or above We are the universe singing We are all that there is We are angels in need of love.

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PUBLISHED: Jan.03.1987

Making Friends

Katya from Moscow and Star from San Francisco: two eleven-year-old girls discover America together.

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PUBLISHED: Jan.03.1975

The Intruders

As I moved from room to room, finding fresh disorder and damage at every turn, and fighting my revulsion at the smell of smoke, I had the feeling there was something ugly, something evil all around me-a presence I could almost touch. And I saw again, with sudden shock, those long black strands of canvas, the charred remains of the awning, casting elongated, dark shadows in the...

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PUBLISHED: Dec.30.1967

How To be A Party Girl

How To Be a party Girl is a delicious, practical and efficient guidebook. Pat Montandon - queen of the jet set-tells every party giver how to become a great hostess and give unforgetable parties. Esquire magazine chose Pat on one of the top party givers in the United States.

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Dec.20.2011 - 6:30 pm

In The Moment

Mist was rising off Stowe Lake in smoky tendrils as I began my early morning walk in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Patterns of sunlight foretold the advent of a breathtaking...

Sep.30.2011 - 7:47 pm

My Favorite Picture

Favorite Pictures Thrashing about in a repetitive dream rather like a DNA sequence ending in frayed telomeres affecting memory, I awoke wondering if I had imagined the people and...

Sep.03.2011 - 11:31 am

Searching for inspiration

One of my ex husbands, can’t remember which one, once said, among other things, that I was like a dog with a bone...

Jun.08.2011 - 11:42 am

20 Surprisingly Easy Ways To Age Gracefully

"Old" has more to do with the way a person acts, thinks and lives than with a number. Pay attention to the age labels you stick on yourself. Seemingly small things can...

Comments from Pat

Oct.01.2011 - 1:11 am

In response to: My Favorite Picture

Pictures

Thank you, Dolores.

Sep.04.2011 - 9:16 am

In response to: Searching for inspiration

God Be With you...

Rosy! Thank you for taking the time to write to me. It's so good to hear from you. Somehow, those old hymns speak...

Sep.04.2011 - 9:05 am

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Mad Men

Thank you so much for your kind words about my writing. I've loved writing about my turbulant childhood in Oklahoma...

Sep.04.2011 - 8:59 am

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Shall we gather...

Jennifer, I haven't blogged in such a long time that I've lost touch with my Red Room friends. It's good to "see" you...

Sep.03.2011 - 4:03 pm

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Music

Hi Dale, Lovely words, the beautiful, beautiful river. I love those old hymns. But that pump organ, I would give it to...

Writing

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Poem: Black Silence

Poem: Ghosts

Poem: TIANANMEN SQUARE -1990

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Whispers From God (paperback of Oh The Hell Of It All)

Published by San Francisco Chronicle

Pat Montandon packs 'em in at Litquake event Surprisingly, on a rather cold Monday night, the queue outside the Swedish American Hall for Litquake's Porch Light storytelling event...

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Video: Recovery Update

Video: Message of Gratitude for Red Room

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Pope John Paul ll blesses Rachel Skiffer and Matthew Nolan on our stop in Rome in route to Moscow on our first... http://t.co/QBbKNEnX — 15 hours 30 min ago

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Pope John Paul ll blesses Rachel Skiffer and Matthew Nolan on our stop in Rome in route to Moscow on our first peace trip in 1982. We arrived in the USSR On Jan. 1, 1983 and made history.
After Glasnost and Perestroika was initiated by President Gorbachev I brought Russian businessmen to San Francisco for a seminar about doing business in the new USSR. On my left is Consul General Kamenev and at the far left my "business partner" Dr. Donald McIntyre. The other men were from Moscow. I Opened the first Soviet/American store Perestroika at the Marriott Hotel and later moved it to Pier 39. I wasn't cut out for business but I loved the challenge of making it happen.
Local Pastor Calls For Death of 'Queers & Homosexuals'

Pastor Charles L. Worley of Providence Road Baptist Church -- located at 3283 Providence Mill Rd, Maiden, NC 28650 -- is seen here from a service posted to t...

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How To Be a Party Girl is a how to book of the first water and it comes out punching, gets stronger as it rolls, and ends like a Golden Gloves champ.”

—Liz Smith, Chicago Tribune and Washington Post

About Pat

Pat Montandon was born in Texas and lived in Oklahoma as the daughter of a two ministers. At eighteen she became the tenth person in the world to undergo successful (blind surgery as it was then called) heart surgery. In her twenties Pat wrote and produced...

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