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.
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
Every week, it seems there’s a new “miracle” pill, drink, or powder promising to erase brain fog and give you the memory of a 20-year-old. The labels sparkle, the ads show smiling faces, and the promises sound irresistible. But here’s the truth: many of these products are untested,
For centuries, bats have been cast in the wrong roles. They’ve been painted as villains in folklore, symbols of darkness in literature, and—most unfairly—villains of disease in modern headlines. But if you peel back the myths and look at the reality, bats are among the most remarkable,
When most people think of honey, they picture golden sweetness in a jar — nature’s candy. It’s often marketed as a “natural” and even “ethical” alternative to sugar. But if you ask a vegan, honey is off the menu. Why? Let’s dig into the sticky truth. 🍯 The Basics:
Friends, If there’s one thing last night’s broadcasting disaster confirmed, it’s that we’ve entered an era where the boundary between televised rhetoric and irresponsible incitement is so thin it practically evaporates on cue. Let’s review the facts (so we don’t lose any in the
Jimmy Kimmel has used his platform for years to help others in real, tangible ways: * Donated $1 million of his own money to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles after his son’s surgery. * Helped raise over $1.3 million for Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation to fight childhood cancer. * Regularly
There is no single day when you wake up and find your country gone. The loss is not a sudden shattering but a slow erosion, like watching the shoreline collapse into the sea grain by grain. You stand there, helpless, as the familiar landscape of values, trust, and shared destiny
When I was seventeen, a lie about me changed the course of my life. It spread quickly, like poison in water, contaminating everything it touched. I was young, fragile, and unprepared for the weight of that falsehood. The shame and hurt were so unbearable that I quit high school, left