Julie explores life with curiosity, creativity, and connection. I share observations with humor, offering perspective on the world and how it shapes us—lightening life’s complexities along the way.
For years I’ve sat here grinding my teeth, watching Democrats walk into the political boxing ring armed with a stack of policy papers while Republicans waltzed in with a bullhorn, a catchy slogan, and a willingness to set their hair on fire for the cameras. Guess who usually won?
There’s a moment in every life where you realize you’ve been humming someone else’s song. Maybe it’s the chorus of family expectations. Maybe it’s the bass line of workplace culture. Maybe it’s the faint background music of “fit in, don’t stand out.” And
Is this you? Every Monday morning after “too much pizza weekend”) many of us write down the same noble list: * Lose weight * Exercise more * Finally get my act together - attack that to-do list And then… life happens. By the next day, the treadmill is a laundry rack, the “healthy
We live in a world where our first instinct, when faced with a question, is to “Google it.” That means a handful of powerful tech companies shape not only what we know but also how we think about political leaders. And here’s the problem: the results we see aren’
I think about now is when we are supposed to be uprising. What the hell are we doing? What is the line that Trump crosses where we say no more? He has already crossed every legal, ethical and moral line. Project 2025 is now 50 percent done. And yet we
If you listen to the rhetoric today, you’d think evangelicals have always cared about abortion. It’s portrayed as a timeless, unshakable, straight-from-the-Bible stance—as obvious as “thou shalt not kill” or “thou shalt not vote Democrat.” But the truth is stranger, and frankly, darker. The religious right didn’
A friend of mine recently wrote a post that struck a nerve. She argued that sharing politically charged sound bites, shorts, and reels only creates division, misunderstanding, and hatred. In her view, people who post political opinions on social media are not changing anyone’s mind; they’re just making
If you’ve been living under a rock (or, worse, watching Fox News on repeat), you might not know who Bad Bunny is. Let me enlighten you before you embarrass yourself at your Super Bowl party by asking if he’s a new Pokémon character. Spoiler: he’s not. He’
Yesterday, we witnessed the Republican Party’s idea of leadership: a bloated orange carnival barker and his second-string frat boy lapdog trying to tell the U.S. military what their jobs are. Imagine a pair of drunks in a bar corner lecturing brain surgeons on how to hold a scalpel,
October has arrived — crisp air, crunchy leaves, hayrides, football, bonfires, chili bubbling on the stove, pumpkin patches teeming with toddlers in knit hats, and the annual ritual of Americans buying decorative gourds they will forget on the porch until mid-December when they begin to rot into a sticky, orange shame
Dear friends of wellness - while we wait to see if our government is going to shut down and as we open our medical and drug insurance plans for 2026 and gasp at the increases..I offer this diversion. Use it wisely 🫶🏻 In a time when stress, burnout, and health
Dear Friends, Let’s just put it on the table: the Trump circus has been eating me alive. I’ve been tracking it, writing about it, skewering it, rolling my eyes so hard I nearly sprained something — and somewhere along the way, it started gnawing at my well-being in ways