The Windfall Dispatch
Erika BolstadThe Windfall Dispatch is a peek inside journalist Erika Bolstad's notebook. Out most Sundays.
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Blossom Walk
All photos from Portland, Oregon on April 4, 2026.
Hi friends,
Every once and awhile, I need to recalibrate my attention. The best way I know how is to take a long walk with my camera.
Yesterday, I went on my annual blossom stroll thro...
The Elk, Arriving Soon
And subscribers get the first look at both of the film trailers!
Revisiting Minneapolis
Hello friends,
This week, I thought I’d reshare a dispatch I wrote from Minneapolis in late 2023, when I was first developing my current monument project. As with what’s happening right now in Minneapolis, the documentary I’m directing is...
2036
In 2016, I took a lot of selfies of myself practicing yoga.
Hi friends,
In recent days, nostalgia for 2016 has swept Instagram, the one social media space I still tolerate…and even enjoy. There, we’re all sharing photos from The Year Bef...
The Trolley Problem
A dispatch from a tony suburb.
Dear subscribers,
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Erika Bolstad is a journalist and documentary filmmaker in Portland, Ore., USA, and the author of Windfall, out now from Sourcebooks.
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