Blogging by Julie

In working with victims of domestic violence and abuse, I hear a common question: "How do I know that he has changed?" This usually happens when a wife has left hubby and he's scrambling to get his "normal" back. It's an important question. After all, how many times do we...

A great time was had by all yesterday in the Community Painting Tent at the Taste of Glen Ellyn, organized by the Glen Ellyn Chamber of Commerce. Sharing the booth with Glen Ellyn Rocks! was the ever fun and friendly Bottles & Bottega team, the Glen Ellyn Historical Society and...

Have you heard of Anna's House? You can find them here. They have several locations and I was thrilled to find them this AM in Holland MI for a delicious breakfast that took all my allergies into account. Happy birthday to me! Anna's is a wonderful example of branding done...

Did you notice all the PR moves this year? All because of the scandal of some players in the past refusing to respect the flag. Thank goodness all were respectful this game. The veterans attended (hope they received free tickets), tossed the coin, were verbally recognized and some players were...

This season has been crazy so far and I have been feeling more than a bit overwhelmed this week. I'm sure that many of you are too.  I participated in #NaNoWriMo (Writing 50k words of my novel in the month of November- WHY do they have it in November?!) and...

I was privileged to hear presentation from Ben Pohl recently on Distracted Driving on 1/26. In 1997, Ben was driving his VW Bug with four good friends when he became distracted with socializing and crashed the car. They were not wearing seatbelts. Ben was thrown out of the car and received the...

My first introduction to Zonta was through Anna Weselak, and I was incredibly pleased to learn that they STAND up and MAKE a DIFFERENCE in women's lives, all over the world. Although when the organization began in 1919, it's was largely focused on "women's rights"--when I toured the World headquarters,...