Year: 2024

Morning MusicMorning Music

April 16, 2024April 16, 2024| JulieJulie|

I always have music playing—unless I’m reading or writing. While I clean, while I research, while I complete creative projects, and while I drive, music is either tinkling in the background or vibrating the speakers. Music is life’s great equalizer,

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Makeup, Materialism, and Minors: What One Trip to Sephora Revealed about SocietyMakeup, Materialism, and Minors: What One Trip to Sephora Revealed about Society

April 9, 2024April 9, 2024| JulieJulie|

I’m cheap. I feel I should disclose this immediately. I do not buy expensive brands. Never have, never will. My sister, who is four years older than me, used to cry when my mom refused to buy Guess jeans. My

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The Nightmare of RevisingThe Nightmare of Revising

April 1, 2024April 1, 2024| JulieJulie|

I hate revising. Not the first time through, mind you. Revising after that shitty first draft is fun, fruitful, and productive. The memoir takes shape as it morphs from random musings into a coherent book with insight and profundity (at

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Let Me Do It MyselfLet Me Do It Myself

March 27, 2024March 27, 2024| JulieJulie|

I get it. I fully understand why retailers are eliminating self-checkouts, why they are limiting them to Ten Items or Less, why they no longer want customers to check themselves out. All those thieves have ruined it for the rest

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(No Fear of) Missing Out(No Fear of) Missing Out

March 21, 2024March 21, 2024| JulieJulie|

I’ve always been prone to live in my own little world. As a child, I created fairy-tale worlds with Care Bears and Barbies, my hundreds of stuffed animals, and MTV. I didn’t pay attention to what was in vogue or

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