2022 is the year I ask for help. It’s the year of not making things harder for myself. It’s the year when I do what I need to do to protect myself, when I don’t suffer needlessly, when my health and joy come before my professional success. I’ve always been prone to carry too much—physically, emotionally, metaphorically, in pretty much…
It’s pretty exasperating how the human heart is never content, isn’t it? Last fall I was walking around my neighborhood, crying because I had been furloughed and felt so stressed and overwhelmed by unemployment and the job-searching process. Now, a year later, I’m stressed out of my mind by my job and longing for periods of unstructured time to work…
For a long time, I’ve lived my life from a mindset of scarcity. I hesitate somewhat to write about this, as it might seem flippant coming from a white, middle class young woman who has never gone hungry or been unhoused. My college education was partially paid for by a scholarship I earned by working my ass off in school,…
Wow. Half a year went by so quickly! Relatively often the thought of posting crossed my mind, but I haven’t made the time to do it until now. Now that six months have passed, it seems like a good time to check in on how I am doing with meeting my goals for this year. Knitting a sweater: sadly, I…
About a year ago, my Spanish teacher from my junior year of high school started a children’s literature publishing house for women authors. Along with her good friend Laura Kern, Betsy Howard founded Wandeling Press. They recently funded their first book Woolies for the Winter on Kickstarter, and it is now available for purchase on their website. If you have a little…
New Year’s Resolutions are funny. The thing is, no matter how seriously you tell yourself, “This year, I am going to ____________,” it doesn’t work. You can’t make anything happen just by saying that it will. Resolve disappears quickly. Can we call them “New Year’s Goals” instead? Somehow, that makes them seem so much more feasible. After all, you don’t…
Welcome to Julia Catherine Creates! On this blog, I hope to talk about creativity, literature, and life. I started this blog several years ago, but sadly never got it very far off the ground. This time around, I plan to treat it as a journal of sorts – a way to creatively document the experiences I’m going through and the…