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.
Nobody is making a documentary about her. She doesn’t have a podcast. She’s not building a personal brand. She has approximately 340 followers on Instagram, most of whom are relatives and one very enthusiastic former coworker named Dave. But every single week, without announcement, without applause, without a
We made a pilgrimage last night. Not a casual outing. A pilgrimage. To Emens Auditorium in Muncie to see the one, the only, the myth, the marble bust of American songwriting himself—Bob Dylan. A legend. A king. A man whose lyrics have been studied, dissected, and probably used to
Can I ask you something? When was the last time you felt like enough? Not almost enough. Not enough-for-now-but-working-on-it. Not enough-compared-to-where-I-was-three-years-ago. Just… enough. Take your time. I’ll wait. If you’re struggling to answer that,
I need to tell you something. And I need you to actually hear it. Not scan it. Not nod politely and move on to the next thing. Not file it under “nice thought” and forget it by Thursday. Hear it. You have permission. That’s it. That’s the whole
There is a certain tone people use when they talk about protests now. You know it. You’ve heard it. “Performative.” “Pointless.” “Nothing changes.” “A waste of time.” “My favorite is the casual shrug dressed up as wisdom: If it mattered, it would look different. Or the more aggressive versions:
A Saturday that, on paper, probably looked like any other. Coffee. Errands. Maybe a walk if the weather cooperated. Except it wasn’t. Because while one man, Donald Trump, spent the day tucked safely behind the gates of Mar-a-Lago, eight million Americans stepped out of their homes and
You stay home. You shake your head at the news. You say to yourself, “This isn’t right,” and then you move on with your day. No judgment. We’ve all done it. But there are other moments—rarer, more consequential—when silence starts to feel like something else. Like
There’s a version of change that looks dramatic. Big decisions. Bold moves. Declarations that sound impressive when you say them out loud. And while that kind of change has its place… It’s not where most real change begins. Most real change starts much quieter than that. It starts
Somewhere along the way, most of us learned a quiet rule: Be grateful for what you have. And on the surface, that’s a good rule. Gratitude grounds you. It softens things. It reminds you that not everything is wrong. But sometimes—without realizing it— we turn gratitude into a
There’s a kind of tiredness that sleep fixes. You go to bed. You wake up. You feel better. This isn’t that. This is the kind of exhaustion that lingers… even after a full night’s sleep. The kind that shows up in small, quiet ways: You put things
There’s a version of your life that lives quietly in your memory. Not in a dramatic, cinematic way. Just… in fragments. A younger version of you who assumed certain things would happen. Certain feelings would last. Certain doors would open. You didn’t map it all out. But you
Let me tell you something I didn’t expect to notice. It wasn’t a crisis. No dramatic breakdown. No life-altering event. It was a Tuesday. I was going through my day—doing all the things responsible, capable people do—and I had this strange, unsettling thought: “Is this