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How To Be a Tourist In Your Own Town: Say Yes To The Mess

by Nicole Sheets - WanderChic
( April 29th, 2012 )

I’m trying to adopt a philosophy of saying “yes” whenever I can. Even when that “yes” leads to several pie tins’ worth of whipped cream in the face.

In the spirit of Natalie Goldberg’s essay “A Tourist In Your Own Town,” ...

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Road Trip Novelist: An Interview with Pamela Balluck (Part II)

by Nicole Sheets - WanderChic
( April 24th, 2012 )

In an earlier post, writer Pamela Balluck chatted with WanderChic about her book projects and enduring love of microfilm. This time Pam talks travel rituals, snow, lust for writers’ colonies, and “car as sanctuary.” The photo of Pam, ...

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How To Be a Tourist In Your Own Town: Stop, Look, Smell the Flowers

by Nicole Sheets - WanderChic
( April 20th, 2012 )

It pleases me that the code for the Grand Rapids, MI airport is GRR. What a nice, primal sound. I was welcomed to Michigan’s West Coast by a sign above the GRR baggage carousel. I knew that Michigan …

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