Author: JulieEthan
Hong Kong & China Remarried
The year 2024 marked forty years of marriage for my husband and myself. We took our vows with a religious belief, at the time, framed by a verse (message) in the Bible: The two shall become one flesh. For us, that meant we opened a joint checking account. Even though…
Hong Kong First Impressions
After three flights totaling eighteen hours in the air, I arrived with incredibly swollen feet—in Hong Kong—three days before a ten-day tour of mainland China. The group on the tour organizes around the central theme that peace with China is in everyone's best interest. They study the results of policies…
Election Day 2024 Insights
Try to remember a time when you believed strongly in something. Maybe it was Santa Claus, maybe it was the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church, maybe it was Y2K and you thought it would shut down the grid. Whatever comes to mind, I’m telling you this: you made decisions, took actions…
Updates on my trip to China
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More Unites Us than Divides Us
I once held an out-of-the-ordinary job many of you probably don't know about. Once upon a time, I completed a midlife crisis master's degree in peace and justice studies. My focus was conflict resolution. And the conflict that captured my heart was the political divide in the United States. In…
Book Review: Generation Occupy by Michael Levitin
Reawakening American Democracy An American journalist on his way to finalize his divorce in Germany becomes the unwitting archivist of a movement that gave us new language to describe the socio-economics of our world. Michael Levitin was not a newcomer to protest. Even so, he wasn’t looking for anything other…
Something America Gave to Me
Some holiday cheer here: Please sing along… One the first day of business, America gave to me: The Partridge Family If you're over the age of 50, you might have to agree that Keith Partridge (David Cassidy) had the most enviable feathered hair in the country. Keep scrolling. From Wikipedia,…
Tell Me About A Mistake You’ve Made In Your Career
What the head of HR at Amazon wants to know The head of HR at Amazon is Beth Galetti and in an interview with Andrew Seaman, senior editor of LinkedIn News, Galetti shares that her favorite question to ask new hires is this one: Tell me about a mistake you’ve made in…
Why Republicans Won’t Impeach Trump
Dear Democrats, Gather round the table my dear, sweet, liberal friends. Let mama Julie guide you into the cranial folds of the Republican mind. Lest we forget, I was in their tribe and I’m bilingual in Red and Blue speak—a vast resource here to help you understand the conservative cosmos. …
How Did We Get Here Politically?
Retelling the Story of our Democracy For Christmas, I wore a comfortable, velvety soft sweater my husband gave me that said: BELIEVE. Believe in what? Well, Santa Claus of course. But in reality, around the holidays I’m just saying BELIEVE in some sort of magic; some sort of pixie dust.…