In the early seventies, some of us were shot like stars from our parents\' homes.
Seen through a slower more primary mirror, one not so crowded with objectivity, Pam\'s memoir, is a kind of home-coming, a family reunion for shooting stars..
This is Pam\'s story, but the courage and truth in the telling is part of our human experience.
Written with deep lyricism, Temperance Creek is a work of haunting beauty, fresh and irreverent and rooted in the grit and pleasure of daily life.
It is a Memoir of falling in love with a place and a man and the price extracted for that love.
From the back of a horse, Pam leads her packstring of readers from overlook to water crossing, down trails two thousand years old, and from the vantages she chooses for us, we feel the edges of our own experiences.
Skip, looking for a bridge from survival back to connection, introduces Pam to the vanishing culture of the wandering shepherd and together they embark on a four-year sojourn into the wilderness.
In the austere beauty and natural reality of Hell\'s Canyon of Eastern Oregon, one hundred miles from pavement, Pam, unable to identify with her parent\'s world and looking for deeper pathways has a chance encounter with returning Vietnam warrior Skip Royes.
This was an act of nature, bigger than ourselves.
In the early seventies, some of us were shot like stars from our parents\' homes
