i follow the writing maps account on instagram and i've even ordered a few of their writing maps. i'm sick today and have stayed home from work. i've got a fever and that ache in the shoulder...
http://www.julochka.com/2024/02/writing-maps-on-language.html
25 years ago today - brønshøj kirke and today - only a little bit older. he's still a keeper here's to 25 more.
i think i mentioned that i vowed to wear something sparkly to the office every day i went to the office in december. i did indeed do so and every single time made me happy, so i decided i'd c...
http://www.julochka.com/2024/02/entering-my-sparkling-era.html
it's delights week over at the grown-ups' table (a 30-day drawing challenge on wendy macnaughton's wonderful substack ). and after a slow commute home (the roads are still terrible out there ...
husband's bestie has sold his place and is moving away at the end of the month. he's a truly lovely person, a retired pilot, and i will miss him because he's been a staple dinner guest at our...
got together with a good friend today and we both spent more than an hour talking about recent frustrations and energy-stealing situations and those damn christmas expectations and...
http://www.julochka.com/2024/01/go-and-scream-in-forest.html
i love that nordic blue winter light. it's been snowing all day and is expected to continue into tomorrow. it was raining when we went to bed, so there's a laye...
on this rainy, grey first day of january, i was catching up on my substack feed, waiting for it to clear up a bit so that i can go for a walk. i read suleika jouoad's isolation journals sunda...
http://www.julochka.com/2024/01/the-isolation-journals-five-lists.html
january it seems like january wasn't all that memorable. working from home, a visit to mosegaard museum, frost and snow, lego flowers, the light slowly returning. february lots ...
christmas has come and gone. everyone has just departed and i'm relishing a little bit of time to myself, on the couch, watching harry potter. as usual, christmas had its fraught moments. mom...
http://www.julochka.com/2023/12/christmas-is-fraught-with-expectations.html
i'm sick. i haven't been sick like this in a long time. it started yesterday when i was driving with a colleague to copenhagen. i suddenly knew i was going to throw up and luckily he pulled o...
i've lived in denmark for nearly 25 years and weirdly have never previously gone inside the marble church, which is the church right by amailenborg, where the royal family lives. i'm not sure ...
"memory is a kind of ceaseless remodeling." - this is from that harper's piece on memory. i kept reading and kept thinking about it. and then old friend of the blog, malorie, wrote a lov...
you guys, i'm making a podcast at work. it's about danish design. and it totally fulfills my desire, at this stage of my life, to just make cool shit. you can find it on spotify and apple po...
http://www.julochka.com/2023/11/im-making-podcast-at-work.html
most amazing experience today. we had an open house in our atelier at the top of the library. the purpose was to show the community the kinds of things we do in our little creative group and...
i love these magical amanita muscaria. i thought they were the stuff of legend until i moved to denmark. i also thought there weren't going to be any this year, the...
i was reading this piece in harper's on memory. and the list of memory fragments in the fourth paragraph made memories start to flit into my mind. driving along I-80 in iowa in 1982 and seei...
it's been ages since i've done any updates on our never-ending house project and it's not because there's no progress, it's more that i have less time to document than i did in the old days.�...
http://www.julochka.com/2023/10/the-long-awaited-new-bedroom.html
we had a two-day course over the weekend in creagive - it was with photographer/journalist lars bertelsen and he was wonderful and inspiring! he taught us to make a pinhole camera using em...
http://www.julochka.com/2023/10/fun-with-pinhole-camera.html
september 4 september 9 september 17 september 24 it's honestly still this green, but tomorrow is october 1, so a new month starts. the temperatures are still unseasonably war...
this indigo dying is another of those things that i never did until i learned to do it in danish, so i don't actually know what this is called. in danish it's a kypefarve. from what i can fin...
i got this white linen dress on sale at cos last year. i've been waiting for the chance to dip it in an indigo dye pot for nearly a year! well, i got the chance last weekend! so i did a bit o...
http://www.julochka.com/2023/09/linen-dress-in-indigo-dye-pot.html
some years ago i wrote about someone i had encountered who seemed to be an underskudsmenneske (deficit person). i just reread that long-ago post and realized that i have encountered another ...
i'm not sure how it's already september 10 and i haven't posted the august garden, but better late than never. august 7 august 12 august 20 august 26 the light is fading ...
in early may, i started on wegovy. my weight has been creeping up for some years and menopause hasn't exactly helped. it seems harder than ever to those extra pounds. my mom was about my age w...