Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing.
Pam HoustonThe Universe has a plan to make sure we don't ever stop learning, not only in our minds, but also in our hearts.
Pam HoustonTraveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching.
Pam HoustonSometimes no matter how well you prepare, no matter how conservative your decision making, no matter how few Y chromosomes are along on your trip, you can still find yourself in a mud slide or a hurricane without a dry piece of clothing to your name. But those of us who have given our time and usually our hearts to outdoorsmen over the years know that, for many of them, it's not really a wilderness trip unless, MacGyver-like, they have to make a fire out of a pair of shorts, a glow stick, and a ketchup bottle; it's not really an adventure until someone gets airlifted out.
Pam HoustonThere's this great Ron Carlson story, "A Note on the Type," and it's about this guy who keeps escaping from prison. He's really good at escaping, but he gets caught all the time, because he can't stop writing his name on underpasses where he's running from the law. And there's this whole beautiful paragraph about how to run is to write. And, you know, it's obviously about the writer's life.
Pam Houston