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Blog Posts about Travel

Learning to Love Traveling

December 1st, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in Travel 2 Comments

Photo of Christmas Tree in Louisville Airport

When I have to travel… I’m uncomfortable, discombobulated, homesick. But since I do have to travel about four times a year, I want to teach myself how to do it with less discomfort.

In Travel Mary Oliver Amtrak

Living in the City of Holy Faith

October 2nd, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in New Mexico, Travel Leave a Comment

Photo of a Santa Fe Church with a clear sky

Often when I’m asked, with less and less surprise, why I moved to Santa Fe in 1991, I repeat the familiar explanations…

In New Mexico, Travel Santa Fe Los Angeles

Truck Driving Woman

January 28th, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in Travel 1 Comment

White truck on highway with mountains in the background

She is, she told me, a professional long-haul truck driver, steering eighteen-wheelers with enormous trailers across big swatches of this county.

In Travel Amtrak

Umbrella

January 24th, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in Women, Travel 1 Comment

Black umbrella with water droplets

For my daily walk I borrowed a big black umbrella. But—how to open it?

In Women, Travel California

Hands

October 18th, 2023 by Sallie Bingham in Women, Travel 2 Comments

Photo of an elderly woman's hands

Our faces show the inevitable effects of age but our hands seem to me to retain a little of our youthful hopefulness.

In Women, Travel Ireland Mary Clifford Caperton Bingham Favorites of 2023

Somewhere Out There You…

October 11th, 2023 by Sallie Bingham in Travel, Theater Leave a Comment

Promotional image for the play Somewhere Out There You

As I’m listening to long-forgotten but amazingly familiar tunes, I’m remembering the high point of my visit to Dublin last week…

In Travel, Theater New York City Ireland

Equinox in the City That Lacks One

September 24th, 2023 by Sallie Bingham in New Mexico, Travel 2 Comments

Photo of Chaco Canyon Ruins

Of course equinoxes happen everywhere even in places that seem oblivious like midtown Manhattan where I’m roosting for a few days…

In New Mexico, Travel Chaco Canyon New York City

California Dreamin’

August 6th, 2023 by Sallie Bingham in My Family, Travel 4 Comments

Photo of Laguna Beach Lifeguard

It’s no longer just the perfectly proportioned who wear thongs on the beach; the size of some of the buttocks on display is awe-inspiring.

In My Family, Travel California

Talking the Train Talk

May 21st, 2023 by Sallie Bingham in Travel 2 Comments

Vintage Amtrak Southwest poster

Everywhere I travel on Amtrak, I meet people who are dedicated to avoiding planes.

In Travel Amtrak Favorites of 2023

There Are Just Too Many of Us

August 17th, 2022 by Sallie Bingham in Women, Travel Leave a Comment

Photo of crowd

We’ve all experienced the overcrowding of big cities, from which some of us fled to small towns like Santa Fe, now overwhelmed too with commercial development and part-time residents.

In Women, Travel Overpopulation La Leche League Feminism

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Visiting Linda Stein

Visiting Linda Stein

March 3rd, 2025
Back on October 28th, 2008, I visited artist Linda Stein's studio in New York City and tried on a few of her handmade suits of armor.
On Memoir and My Writing Memoir/Writing History Workshops

On Memoir and My Writing Memoir/Writing History Workshops

February 11th, 2024
I think memoir writing is a much more serious task than it's often considered to be. It's not informal, it's not casual. It really is the writing of

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Rebecca Reynolds & Salie Bingham at SOMOS

Rebecca Reynolds & Salie Bingham at SOMOS

November 8th, 2024
This event was recorded November 1, 2024 in Taos, NM at SOMOS Salon & Bookshop by KCEI Radio, Red River/Taos and broadcast on November 8, 2024.
Taken by the Shawnee Reading

Taken by the Shawnee Reading

September 1st, 2024
This reading took place at The Church of the Holy Faith in Santa Fe, New Mexico in August of 2024.

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Beyond Memoir: Empowering the Imagination by Writing Historical Fiction – Spring 2025

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Sallie Bingham's latest is a captivating account of ancestor's ordeal
Pasatiempo, The Santa Fe New Mexican

“I felt she was with me” during the process of writing the book, Bingham says. “I felt I wasn’t writing anything that would have seemed to her false or unreal.”

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