Sad News: Pamela's Passing

Hi folks -- sad news today -- as many of you have let me know, Journaler Pamela Hilger (His1Desire) passed away this weekend after a battle with cancer.

(Pam sent the above photo to my JournalsEditor predecessors in April of 2004.)

Pam's sister (who also has a Journal), posted the news in the comments thread of Pam's Journal. (Also see the Yahoo group set up for Pam.)

Blogger John has written an entry about Pam that includes some links to what some of you folks are doing to remember her; our current Guest Editor Andi has a link to a chat room, and Jimmy the Stupidsheet Guy has set up a page for donations.

For my own part, I can't say I knew Pam very well, though I did know her Journal enough that I suggested her as one of the people that might like to be interviewed back when AOL released the survey results on Why We Blog.

She was featured in the Washington Post in October (it's mirrored here in case the article isn't available). Pam talks about you all, and how much the people she met via her blog meant to her, including this:

"After I was diagnosed, the first people I turned to are my friends and journaling buddies," said Hilger, who reads about 50 other blogs. "They're never failing with support and encouragement."

If you're going to be posting about Pam, feel free to leave a comment with a link back to your blog here or with any of the other Journalers who are writing about her.

Alternately, you might want to tag your Pam entries so that everyone can find them without having to go to a specific blog -- here is the HTML for the tags that I'm using, though you're free to come up with your own:

<br><br>Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/His1desire" rel="tag">His1desire</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/pamela+hilger" rel="tag">Pamela Hilger</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/remembering+pam" rel="tag">Remembering Pam</a>

(If you do use tags and you're going to paste the above HTML, make sure the pulldown menu in the formatting toolbar says "HTML", not "Text" -- if you prefer, you can just copy the tag links at the bottom of my post and paste them as clickable hyperlinks into your own entry).

Condolences, thoughts and prayers to Pam's family.

Thanks -- Joe

Tags: His1desire, Pamela Hilger, Remembering Pam