Beneath the Borealis
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I'm Julia. In 2015 I went on what I thought would be a quick trip to Alaska to "get out of dodge". Little did I know, Alaska had other plans for me. 17 days turned into the summer and I ended up falling in love (both with the place and with my person, a.k.a "The Chief"). Now, I live in a cabin in the Alaskan wilderness. Join me in this out of the blue experience for all the laughs, bumps,..
Beneath the Borealis
5M ago
Rarely have I written to you in a story half-told. Perhaps never. I regale a tale completed, once it’s risen and formed. Yet today, after weeks of avoiding it I find myself here, half-told, asking for your help to write the ending. And…this is why I didn’t want to write this post, because as I ..read more
Beneath the Borealis
8M ago
Five or so years ago now I said something I’ve always looked back on: “I mop my floor every day.” Wow, profound, right? Maybe not exactly but…the reason it’s resonated in my head for years is that it’s not true. Well, not now it isn’t. At the time I said it (thankfully, lest I be ..read more
Beneath the Borealis
11M ago
Don’t tell anyone, but I started a new job and my direct reports at work are being real stinkers this week. You wouldn’t believe it. One disobeyed a direct order and the other threw their lunch at me. One never dresses appropriately for the workplace (pajamas? Rude) and the other comes to work in the ..read more
Beneath the Borealis
1y ago
Phew! It’s been a ride. A wild one, a joyous one, a stressful one, a “Where the heck are any of our things?!” one. The past month has been marvel and mayhem all rolled into one. Yet finally, three moves and a serious weather shift later, we’ve arrived home to our little hamlet in Alaska ..read more
Beneath the Borealis
1y ago
The time has come to tidy up loose ends and head back to the wintry north. In some ways, it feels like we arrived yesterday and in some ways it feels as if we’ve been gone for years. So much has happened. When we arrived, little Ollie was, as a friend calls it, in “Potted ..read more
Beneath the Borealis
1y ago
Years ago now, I wrote a post called Home is Where the Hard Is. In it, I wrote about the hard that is our home, about the struggle it takes to do even the simplest home project, and about how that hard is what made it all the more worthwhile. I was new to our ..read more
Beneath the Borealis
1y ago
It’s been a while. I’ve written to you in my head countless times, crafting paragraphs of prose I promptly forgot. So lest I lapse again, here’s where we left off: Sick. When Ollie was born and we were learning together how to nurse, our doula remarked how we always expect babies to just eat straight ..read more
Beneath the Borealis
1y ago
This weekend Ollie turned six months old. How did we celebrate? With his first fever. Luckily he’s quite the trooper abs somehow still a little lovebug, even when steaming up but it didn’t leave much room for writing. So…until next time! With love, From Hawaii ..read more
Beneath the Borealis
1y ago
If the pandemic did anything for us, I think it helped to make each one of us humans recognize that everyone else is human also. Radical, I know. We saw people in their homes working with everything from kids to cats to dirty laundry in the background and finally we decided it was OK. Working ..read more
Beneath the Borealis
1y ago
I’m not much of a runner anymore but I used to run in local races in California for fun (for fun?!). The longest run I ever completed was a 10k and at a point mid-race I remember thinking “Well, this will never end.” Surprise! It did. I made it. And I lived to see another ..read more