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.
During the holidays, a neighbor stopped by to exchange some food. You know the ritual: she brings something in a disposable container, we give her something in a disposable container, and thus the ancient suburban treaty is renewed for another year. She had never been in my house before. We
One Year In: The Damage Report It has been one year since America reinstalled Donald J. Trump like a corrupted operating system nobody bothered to patch. One year since we decided, as a nation, to click “Remind me later” on the warning that said: This update may permanently damage your
By mid-January, the shouting has started again. Everywhere you look, something is telling you to fix yourself. Optimize yourself. Push harder. Do more. Be better. Be faster. Be less… whatever you apparently were last year. It’s presented as motivation. But much of it feels like something else: pressure disguised
My newsletter today is a potpourri of scrolling on Instagram: Mood - scary stuff in our country, NFL and tomorrow‘s college football playoff. #iykuk GO IU! FUCK ICE! Humor to keep me from mental health meds..but who knows what the future brings. No judgement! Be safe! FIND some
Saw this story on Facebook and it fascinated me...sharing: For four years, a woman sat at a desk while Nazis stole 20,000 works of art. They thought she was furniture. Paris, October 1940. The Nazis had just taken over the Jeu de Paume museum and turned it into
I have recently decided that if I’m going to be a criminal, I’m going to be a very specific kind of criminal. Not the glamorous kind. Not the Ocean’s Eleven kind. Not even the “I accidentally walked out of Costco with a rotisserie chicken under my arm”
The Five Personality Types (According to Science) And the Five Personality Types (According to a 73-Year-Old Woman Who Has Receipts) Every few years, psychology reinvents the horoscope and calls it something serious. This time, it’s called The Big Five Personality Traits, and unlike astrology, it comes with charts, peer-reviewed
You know the old Republican trope: “They get paid to protest.” I’ve always rolled my eyes at that — because I’ve never been paid to stand up for what I believe in, march in the cold, post uncomfortable truths at 7 a.m., or argue with strangers online until
There are days when I wake up absolutely certain of my purpose. And then there are days when I stand in the kitchen holding a cup of coffee, staring into the middle distance, thinking, Surely this is not the full arc of my heroic journey. If you’ve ever had
There comes a point in life when you realize you are not, in fact, a person — you are a collection of emotional carry-on luggage. Some of it is vintage. Some of it is monogrammed. Some of it is clearly broken but you keep hauling it anyway because, at some point
Dear Greenland, Hello. It’s me. America. Or at least the part of America that still feels a deep and abiding need to apologize for that one relative who keeps showing up to weddings drunk, knocking over the cake, and trying to buy the venue. You may remember him. The
We have been sold a very American lie: “If you are not changing the entire world, you are failing.” This is the same culture that thinks: * Hustle is a personality * Burnout is a badge of honor * And rest is something you earn after capitalism is finished with you Let me