For my father, Wayne Proulx, on his birthday.
Happiness Is Not a Pursuit
You can't chase happiness because happiness is not outside of you, says Erik Proulx. Do these 5 things instead.
You can’t chase happiness because happiness is not outside of you, says Erik Proulx. Do these 5 things instead.
Flying Dadless
Erik Proulx is parenting without a script—or a father’s influence. And he’s doing a damn good job.
Just Hit Someone
When Erik Proulx has trouble moving forward as a business owner, he remembers the advice of his line coach back in his high school football games.
365 Days: A Year in Happy Valley
Film Director Erik Proulx is spending a year documenting post-Sandusky State College, PA.
To the Father I Never Knew on Father’s Day
Erik Proulx never hated his father, “a wonderful person with a terrible sickness”: heroin addiction.
Hooked on Distraction
Erik Proulx’s father died of a heroin overdose. Twenty-five years later, Erik wonders if his own addiction to technology might just be a slower kind of death.
My Dad’s Doppleganger
Erik Proulx never really knew his father. But friends and relatives keep trying to fill in the blanks.




