Yes, well, there’s something I have to tell you

There’s this: Which, you know, means this: (Couldn’t resist throwing in another image from the Charley Harper biology book.) Which, you know, means, um, WHAT!? Or, at least, that was my first reaction. Which was quickly followed by, “Oh you have got...

Your Weekly Zuzu

Zuzu in a rare moment of taking after Eli (note his elbows leaning on the arm of the chair, as he’s saying, “That’s right, sister, the proper way to take a nap is to just randomly throw yourself on the furniture).

One Year

Hey, I almost missed it! One year ago, I posted my first post on my WordPress blog. And 377 posts later, here we are (though let’s not forget the many places you can get lost in the original World of Julie site). To celebrate the occasion, I got a haircut: Ok,...

Daily Checklist: Living a Methodical Life

As promised, here’s what I’ve been doing to try to get myself going down the road to Happy Julie Life Land. As part of living life more methodically, I came up with four things I wanted to do every day: exercise, write, clean the house (or some part of it)...

Non, je ne regrette rien.

When I was pregnant with Zuzu, I had one of those life crisis epiphanies that happens when you are pregnant with your third baby and you’re trying to remember what exactly it was you wanted to do with your life again (start a commune? what? manage a small...

What I Did on My Summer Break

And here’s what I learned on my self-imposed break from blogging, Facebooking, and mindless internetting: Surprisingly, not being on the internet is just as addictive as being on it. Very quickly I began to love the days when I didn’t turn my computer on....