Category: Miscellaneous
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Inspiration Boost: an 8 Quote Special
I keep one of those virtual sticky notes in the corner of my desktop, and every so often it just gets so ridiculously long (like, down the street, around the world and to the moon long) that I have to go through and clean it out. One of the bajillion things that I keep in […]
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Logan’s Run: Book vs. Film
The book Logan’s Run does something every writer should envy: it covers multitudes of ground in a very short space. In less than 150 pages it takes us from a hedonistic metropolis to outskirts roamed by “Cubs,” a New Drug-using gang of youth that don’t play by anybody’s rules, to Molly, a buckling, underwater ruin […]
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New Entry in the Julieism Dictionary: worricane
Example: Don’t even mention marriage around Jane right now. She’s still reeling from the worricane she had last Valentine’s Day, when her fortune cookie told her she should learn to enjoy solitude. More Julieisms, definitions and mischief at Julie’s Online House of Awesome. If you like what you see, please Like Julie on Facebook as […]
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The Most Disgusting Thing I’ve Ever Done
As a writer, I just had to sit down and type this little mishap up. It was too visceral not to record. So here’s what happened. Last week, I turned on a lamp in the living room. Flash. The filament cracks to a surge of blue and the light bulb promptly dies. I unplug the […]
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No Doubles
When I was younger, I used to think that the world was SO big and there were SO many people in it that, by default, there must be hundreds, maybe thousands of people like me. I don’t know that I thought of these people as look-alikes, but I do remember thinking that somewhere– perhaps in […]
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From the Julieism Dictionary: a “run off” sentence
See the Julieism gallery for more definitions and mischief!
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Sometimes I am overwhelmed with fascination
Some mornings and some nights, I don’t know what it is– there’s just this feeling that gets into me. I might describe it like going outside after dark and stopping what you’re doing to draw in the world around you: the crickets, the owls, the velvet blue sky, lady moon, the wind in the trees, […]
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“One leg in”: The Julieism Dictionary’s First Entry
After a wonderful reader kindly observed that I’ve a tendency to fashion new words, I began more closely monitoring my expression so as to catch such plays in action. The result? C’EST VRAI. I may not drop them at the rate a chocolate hen drops Cadburry eggs, but I drop ’em. Me being the creative […]
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