What does your office look like?
An interview with Terri Myers of Strata:
As a journalist, Pamela Ferdinand has written for The Boston Globe Magazine, National Geographic News and The Washington Post. She recently co-authored a memoir, Three Wishes: A True Story of Good Friends, Crushing Heartbreak, and Astonishing Luck on Our Way to Love and Motherhood, with two other journalists, Carey Goldberg and Beth Jones. Her office is remarkably clean.
What does [...]
The Divining Wand’s glowing review
This is what The Divining Wand has to say about “Three Wishes”:
“Although its title and description may sound like a fairy tale, the collaborative memoir, Three Wishes:A True Story of Good Friends, Crushing Heartbreak, and Astonishing Luck on Our Way to Love and Motherhood by Carey Goldberg, Beth Jones, and Pamela Ferdinand, is a 21st century non-fiction account of how anything is possible through traditional [...]
Mark’s Kumbh Mela work
was just featured on a popular site, The Travel Photographer.
INSPIREme Chicago Interview
Former television journalist Sarah Jindra interviewed me for her Chicago community site:
Time to meet our next local author with an inspiring book! Pamela Ferdinand is an award-winning journalist from the Chicago area who’s written for the Boston Globe, Miami Herald and Washington Post. This month, her first book was published. It’s co-authored with two of her friends from the Boston area, Beth Jones and Carey [...]
The Jewish Exponent Reviews “Three Wishes”
Here’s a review of our book in The Exponent, which has been published since 1887:
Go Ahead. Make a Wish!
These women did — and their lives changed forever
June 03, 2010
By Nan Myers
Woman plans and God laughs.
You meet someone, fall in love and then … well, despite the above twist on a Jewish proverb, sometimes you actually can get what you hoped for.
Of course, in order to [...]
The Jewish Daily Forward picks “Three Wishes” as a summer read
TRIPLE MOTHERHOOD
Three Wishes
By Carey Goldberg, Beth Jones, Pamela Ferdinand
Little Brown, 288 pages, $24.99
Sure, we’re told to “be fruitful and multiply,” but that’s much easier said than done for those who find themselves approaching 40 and unattached. It’s the situation Boston-based writers Carey Goldberg, Beth Jones and Pamela Ferdinand found themselves in a few years back. One by one, each woman made the decision to undergo [...]
To Wish, or Not to Wish
Here’s my guest post on The Divining Wand:
Wish. So often that word conjures the idea of a genie in a bottle instead of taking destiny into one’s own hands. As a single working woman nearing 40 who wanted both love and family, I could have used a genie. I felt like I was running out of time after falling for men who either couldn’t or [...]
First O Magazine….now this: The New York Times Style Section
Jane Margolies features us in “The Gift of Sperm Donor 8282” in this Sunday’s Style Section (May 23, 2010).
TEN years ago Carey Goldberg, a Boston reporter who was then single and about to turn 39, reached her self-imposed “biological midnight.” Determined to be a mother and with no man yet on the horizon, she did some research on sperm banks and then ordered eight vials [...]
O: The Oprah Magazine * June 2010
SO thrilled to be in the June issue of O Magazine (page 147), especially under the heading “Tomes of the Brave”!
Psychology Today & The Huffington Post
Irene Levine interviewed us for her blog Friendship by the Book, appearing online at Psychology Today and The Huffington Post!
Becoming an older mother is never easy—physically or emotionally—especially if there’s no logical father-to-be on the horizon. Three Wishes: A True Story of Good Friends, Crushing Heartbreak, and Astonishing Luck on Our Way to Love and Motherhood (Little Brown, 2010) is an incredibly wise, witty and powerful memoir [...]
