Musings + love notes for an increasingly unnatural world.

Welcome!

You’ve arrived at a safe place to imagine more. I’m on a journey to rekindle wonder, engage in playful pursuits and add more whimsy to my life. As a recovering workaholic, this space is where I’m sorting through all the battles with my own brain on this journey. Read more, if it resonates, leave me a comment and share freely!

Blue paisley tear drops with blurry shadows

Long Shadows

Is midlife a time of death, decline and diagnosis? Have we slipped past high noon and now cast long shadows on what once was?
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A path to the mountains with paisleys, a lollipop, sun, moon, comet.

New Traffic Pattern Ahead

It’s the juicy peak of summer, when peaches, plums and all their cousins arrive. Flowers are blooming, the sun is shining, and the threat of back-to-school is close enough that anyone who ever attended school feels motivated to get in one last squeeze. Do you feel it too?
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Transcripted

A college transcript from a non-traditional school is a time-capsule, revealing familiar patterns in my life.
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About Julie 

Writer, learner, human. 

As my trips around the sun increase, I wonder about the best ways to measure my life, the legacy I intend to leave behind and the good I’ve yet to do.

After years following rules and living in my ‘left brain’, I’ve been bingeing on creativity, vacationing in my ‘right brain’ and learning to be more human. 

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