This year hasn’t gone as planned. It hasn’t been a terrible year, but I didn’t think health issues would be the biggest theme of the year in and around me. A lot of it, okay, all of it really rocked me, because none of it was in MY plans. Then I saw a picture our…
Each year I try to spotlight this important and still misunderstood issue that cripples women and marriages emotionally, physically, and even spiritually. I’ve shared my polycystic ovarian syndrome story (I had to have 1/2 of each ovary removed just to function, forget fertility at that time, they were FIVE times the size of normal,) my…
All this month I will be watching on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and my new subscribers for my monthly-0r-so newsletter. If you tag me @JulieArduini and tell me you’re #thankful or #juliearduinithankful, I’ll enter your name to win a copy of my fiction books. This includes Entrusted, Entangled, Engaged, You’re Beautiful and the boxed set of…
I smile as I type the title because back in the day when Greek life surrounded me with suite mates pledging and joining sororities, I could not have been more against it. Always the non-conformist, and in college during a time when hazing wasn’t really taken seriously, I wanted no part of it. Then I…
With my own writing deadlines always right there, when something lately in the news grabs me, I dismiss sharing about it here because I’ve read another blog where their thoughts echoed mine and they said it so eloquently. This time, that “burn in my belly” isn’t going away, so I thought I’d share. Last year…
Believe it or not, my schedule is already opening to May. June. July. Even August is filling up. Although as I type snow is falling, I’m planning ahead to days where tulips will be out, lilacs will be blooming and grass will need to be cut. I’m a planner by nature and some of my…