Author Archives: Julie

Well, he is anyway. We went to Disneyland the day after we got engaged. The happiest place on earth for me is wherever he is. My goodness, I’m sappy.

The next few days might prove challenging.

The challenge: Take the mythological hero/heroine or do-gooder of your choice and reveal (expose?) their dark side or troubled past My entry: Shekel I was not so much betting on the lots as on my nerve. Though Thomas looked at … Continue reading →

Two poems in this Shit Creek Review. I feel all proprietary because Michael Cantor’s Ali poem uses a title I suggested on Whup Ass. FAME! FORTUNE! Well, fame at least. Well, at least a blog post. That’s going to count … Continue reading →

My goal is simply to get more exercise, so I’m doing 100 days straight. Look, I even have a ticker. I’m not sure that I would want to watch a baseball game in which the batter kept getting closer and … Continue reading →

I tried a new chili recipe last night because a certain person, not naming any names, Chris, doesn’t like beans and I tend to like chili with some sort of something other than meat and spices. So I found a … Continue reading →

Let it be known that winter sucks. I got my second LSAT score back. It’s better than the last one. Not as good as I was hoping for, but I’m greedy and a perfectionist. The more I get rid of … Continue reading →

Steve was born on October 24, 1960 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Tomorrow would have been his 50th birthday. Fifty still feels like such a long way from me. I’m 39. I’ll be 40 when I start law school. Will I, … Continue reading →

I have given away hundreds if not thousands of books in the past few years, but have set aside a few authors. Those authors, I had said, were my untouchable collection. It’s only when I start to count those books … Continue reading →

Chris yesterday inadvertently created a brilliant word: snowpokes. You know, people who drive slowly because there’s a light dusting of snow on the ground. Snowpokes. Use it in good health.