Smile Through It All

by Pamela Porter

Smile Through It All is a non-fictional, chronological autobiography about my life. It is a story about life, finding love, survival, and remaining resilient despite the challenges ascribable to an abusive marriage, single parenthood, loneliness, Alopecia, and the possibility of Alzheimer. I've written this book in hopes that it inspires and empowers others who are experiencing these trials themselves. It is also my hope that you too are able to overcome the remanences, the stigma, and the judgment that comes with domestic violence and alopecia. I am a woman who got away. I am a woman that beat the odds and for this reason, I Smile Through It All.

190 pages, Paperback

Published October 15, 2020

About the author

Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on July 14, 1956, Pamela Porter of Sidney, B.C., has also lived in Texas, Louisiana, Washington, and Montana. Her husband's family has operated a family farm near Weyburn, Saskatchewan, for generations, and Pamela’s family goes to Saskatchewan every summer to work on the farm.

Having gained her undergraduate English degree from Southern Methodist University in Dallas and her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana, Pamela Porter has taught writing at the University of Victoria and to adults at the tribal school on the Saanich peninsula.