I have a tendency, a desiring for, a preference for – certainty. My preference is to know what time you will be home, to know if I...| Julie Leoni
You have got to find a way to watch Ted Lasso. Honestly. It is one of the most heart warming things I have watched in a long...| Julie Leoni
Words, words, words I’m having some coaching at this weird liminal time where this phase of motherhood is ending. This week my coach used the word ‘strategy’...| Julie Leoni
This man, Robin Keen, is my old head teacher and my old employer. He is 93 or 97 depending on who I listened to and retired at,...| Julie Leoni
I love the On Being Podcast and the episode with Katsi Cook called ‘Women are the first environment’ touched me very deeply. Katsi is a Mohawk midwife,...| Julie Leoni
Just a thought. I don’t know whether you caught the news recently, you know, the usual, ‘all these immigrants coming over here taking our jobs’. Then on...| Julie Leoni
Zen and the art of bricks I don’t remember much of Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance, but once bit that stuck with me is...| Julie Leoni
Enough as in ‘that’s enough now stop hitting your brother’ as in ‘you’ve had enough wine/ice-cream/chocolate for today’ as in ‘as much as is required’ (by whom?...| Julie Leoni
Otter I found a dead otter by the side of the road the other day. It looked peaceful. Its front legs were crossed gently as if relaxing....| Julie Leoni
Did you know that rolling pins were first used by the Etruscans in the 9th century BC? I wonder then if rolling was women’s work? Long. Thin....| Julie Leoni
‘It sounds like a cult’ he said. When I told an old school friend that when away with my son, we would be meeting strangers, in bars,...| Julie Leoni
Sunflowers and Gratitude | Julie Leoni
I’m gathering words and lines and drops of rain to help me love it more: Fun facts from the Met Office: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about/weather/types-of-weather/rain/ Petrichor Petrichor is the smell...| Julie Leoni