by Julie Mathison | Sep 20, 2020 | Ideas, Society
Standing barely 5 feet tall and weighing a hundred pounds, Ruth Bader Ginsberg was the embodiment of that old adage, “you can’t judge a book by its cover.” Whether or not one agreed with her views, values and prerogatives, one could not help but note the...
by Julie Mathison | Sep 10, 2020 | Ideas, Lifestyle, Society, Spirituality, Uncategorized
I wake up at 2:34 a.m., and my chest feels tight. Glowing numbers from the display clock splay across the ceiling, and I turn over, determined to sleep, but there’s a smell in the air. It’s that campfire smell, nice and woodsy, only it’s in my bedroom, and...
by Julie Mathison | Aug 7, 2020 | Ideas, Society
I have rewritten this post three times. Originally, it was entitled “Rehumanizing Karen.” I ran it by my smart, Gen Z, teen-aged kids and found that it said things I did not wish to say, so I revised it, made it more nuanced, and peppered it...
by Julie Mathison | Jul 27, 2020 | Home, Lifestyle, Society, Spirituality
Every spring, for the last fifteen years, we have planted a garden. In recent years, much of this has fallen to our friends, Greg and Amber, who share in the spoils of chard, kale, carrots, beets, garlic, lettuce and berries of all kinds. But we all do our...
by Julie Mathison | Jul 11, 2020 | Ideas, Society, Spirituality
I was born in 1969. On July 20th, when I am eight days old, Neil Armstrong becomes the first human being to set foot on the moon. He manually pilots the Eagle past strewn boulders, amid the sounding of alarms, to land in the Sea of Tranquility with 30...
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