Juliejordanscott

LATEST ARTICLES ( 824 )

• Bold Story: Watching Art Walk Out The Door

  

  A reminder a part of the artmaking process is letting someone else enjoy it. It was the end of a laughter and word-filled writing playground. As it happens... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Boldness, Poetry and the Bank Teller Who Didn't Like Books

  

  I stood in front of the bank teller and for whatever reason I said, “This is the poetry book I’ve been reading as I waited.” “Oh, I don’t like reading,” he said... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bold Stories: Stepping Back Into Myself - Wandering Back to My Wavelength

  

  I am not sure when this a-ha seeped into my heart, but it was sometime in the last week when it opened itself to me and allowed me the luxurious view of truth. Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bold Story: Switching from Luigi to Mario for Halloween - Just Another...

  

  I am the only mother I know who cried when her child was potty trained. I am the only mother I know who calculated the birthdate of her child and said, “Phew,... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• This is What Letting Go Looks Like, Too. Another Bold Story from #write31days

  

  This is what letting go looks like, too. Not good, not bad - letting go simply is letting go, a different form of grieving. A moment in time.     This morning... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bold Stories: Building Boundaries - When What Looks Like "No" is Actually a...

  

  It feels bold to say “No, I can’t do that,” or to create a container to purposefully protect yourself from energies or people that may add an energetic... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bold Stories Continue with "This is What Letting Go Looks Like" & More from...

  

  My recent adventure through the world of letting go is familiar with those closest to me and perhaps to quite a few folks who don’t know me very much at all. Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• What Happens When We Choose to Step Into Our Darkness?

  

  It's funny - not in the ha-ha way - how darkness so easily ignites insecurity, fear, and the desire to turn away from where my heart wants to go. At least that'... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Quirky Book Lovers Unite! Boldly Become Your One-of-a-Kind, First Edition Self

  

  Yay for Book People Word-Lovers! When I cross the threshold of a used book sale it is akin to sending an ice cream addict into a room filled with vats of ice... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Better. Becoming Bolder. Adding to Our Increase Daily.

  

  A roomful of people watched the screen as an enormous animated needle stitched jaggedly across the doll’s face. I instinctively grabbed my own face and leaned... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Who Belongs Here? A Bold Request for Your Input

  

  I need your help in making a creative decision. Tell me: Who of the women in the images below belongs here, on this mixed media canvas, ready for the final... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• How to Move Forward with Boldness by Simply Staying Present

  

  Warning: I am about to get countercultural. For those of you who have known me for a while, this isn’t shocking at all. I like to throw my picnic blanket out... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Yes: Sometimes Boldness Whispers. And Sometimes Boldness Makes Mistakes

  

  I’ll say it: there are times I have believed boldness needs to be thunderous, a cymbal at the end of a musical movement, a shouted declaration from the rooftops. Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Open Letter to the Young Man at the Theatre Lock-In from the Mom Who Was...

  

  Open letter to the communities who embrace one another.... Dear Young Man at the Theater Lock In Whose Words Brought Tears to My Eyes, You didn’t know you... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Shoulders Slump from Exhaustion... of a Different Kind

  

  My shoulders slumped, the curves from my neck to my elbows seemed to flatten under the weight of a steam roller. “Exhaustion! I need a pillow. Water! Chocolate!... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Bold Choice to Write, Even and Especially as a Granny (or Mommy Or Daddy Or...

  

  Some might wonder what is bold about these 233 words I offer to you today. Well, any time we do anything outside convention it is bold. Countercultural? Bold. Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• I'll Be Your Yay-Sayer: A New Way to Create Positive Change Through Focusing on...

  

  My friend Kimberly and I recently started a new ritual to end our days on a positive note. We intentionally say goodnight on an upnote. It has quickly become a... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bold Stories of Then & Now - On Being Good Enough -

  

  I developed this essay for two reasons: for both the 31days project of Bold Stories as well as  for Charity Craig's #GoodEnoughMom Tuesday Link Up. Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• When the Bell to Your Next Adventure Rings, Answer It!

  

  Call me Julie, the Pied Piper. I have a tendency to enjoy going on wacky adventures. My friends know this and usually it is willingly they join me on such... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Revolution: A Poem

  

  lasting revolutions are bathed in silence that moment when everything stops and choices wash away, swept into the tide of “I must I must I can’t I don’t know ho... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION