SWEET SURVIVAL by Pamela Smith

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This book is an amazing combination of suffering, hilarity and philosophy, a must read for people who are suffering from diabetes. Pamela Smith has created a new slew of words to tell the absolute truth of living with a more than difficult situation, revealing her as an inventor/writer/theologian. She presents us with a lesson for living well that makes us laugh and cry. I highly recommend it for a way of learning so much about the life we all live.
–Marguerite Guzman Bouvard, author of The Light That Shines Inside Us and Healing: A Life with Chronic Illness

Pam Smith’s new collection Sweet Survival renders life through the view of a long-term diabetic.  In poems that range from frightening to funny, she conveys the sense of a life well-lived: not a “victory” over the disease, but a workable truce that offers each new day as an opportunity to start again.

–Sheryl Clough, Write Wing Publishing; editor and publisher of Through a Distant Lens: Travel Poems (2014); author of chapbook Ring of Fire, Sea of Stone (2013)