Happiness is on the brain. I read this interview with Cheryl Strayed on The Happiness Project, in which Strayed calls a 20-minute walk “the cheapest, healthiest cure on earth.” Preach it! And recently I finished Eric Weiner’s The Geography of Bliss (which I heard about from JoAnna Haugen’s review.) Weiner’s book is a compelling and quirky quest […]
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Road Trip Novelist: An Interview with Pamela Balluck (Part II)
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, above, was taken by Howard Romero at the Vermont Studio Center. Pam shot the ones below: on […]
Road Trip Novelist: An Interview with Pamela Balluck (Part I)
One of my favorite writers, Pamela Balluck, finds writing material on the road, in big Western skies, and in newspaper archives. She recently shared her insights about the intersections of travel, memory, fiction, and family. Plus Pam whips out adjectives like “Jed-Clampett-like” and “dinosaurish.” The photo above was taken by Pam’s “East Coast cousin” Barbara […]