road trip Archives • Melissa Baron

A Bookish Cross-Country U.S. Road Trip: Southern Pacific

Posted on February 1, 2022July 18, 2022 by Melissa Baron

Welcome to the fourth installment of the bookish cross-country road trip series! We have traversed across the Northern U.S. using I-90, explored the heart of the country across I-70, and traveled along the east coast on I-95. Now that the weather is chilly and generally unpleasant for large swaths of the country, let’s discover what bookish treasures we […]

Writing Playlist: Bluegrass

Posted on July 2, 2021September 12, 2021 by Melissa Baron

Bluegrass and summer go hand in hand for me. The first Big Thing I ever did on my own was go on a road trip from Chicago to northeastern Utah by myself in peak summer. I had gotten accepted into the Denver Publishing Institute (a graduate certification for publishing and editing), and I was about […]