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Name: Julie Artz
Date registered: September 3, 2009
URL: http://www.terminalverbosity.com

Latest posts

  1. Getting Crafty – Built-in Purse Keychain — February 6, 2012
  2. Going Paperless — February 1, 2012
  3. Dream Home — January 27, 2012
  4. You cant step in the same river twice — January 23, 2012
  5. There’s More to Lapland than Santa’s Village! — January 22, 2012

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Feb
06

Getting Crafty – Built-in Purse Keychain

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The key holder on our messenger bag inspired this project!

I dispensed with a major pet peeve of mine–digging through my purse to find my keys–today with a simple craft project using only items I had laying around the house! My beloved Timbuk2 messenger bag has a nifty little clip on the end of a ribbon, so I can attach my keys and never lose …

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Feb
01

Going Paperless

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a photo of a five-drawer filing system

This winter I finished a project I started in June of 2010 and posted what I thought was this innocuous little picture of what is left of my paper-based filling system–a tiny set of file drawers that fits next to my desk and is small enough to fit in a suitcase–on Facebook. It set off …

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Jan
27

Dream Home

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A family photo taken August 2010

With Matt gone and the weather rather grey, I’ve been spending more than my fair share of time on Pinterest. Most people have a board related to their dream home with photos of lovely wrap-around porches and gorgeous cozy gardens full of fairy lights and comfy chairs. But I’m kind of taken with the life …

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Jan
23

You cant step in the same river twice

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The kids' first Metro ride in Helsinki (October 2010). Some people spend a lifetime trying to see what my kids have seen in the past 16 months.

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus said, according to Plato, that you cannot step in the same river twice due to the constantly-changing nature of the river. It’s a pretty good metaphor for expat life, especially when that expat life involves moving every 2-4 years. I think I’ve mentioned before that I lived in the same general area of a not …

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Jan
22

There’s More to Lapland than Santa’s Village!

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a photo of sunrise in Lapland

One of the unexpected joys of living in Finland (and there are many) is Santa mania. According to This is Finland, Finns have been claiming that Santa lives in Finland since 1927. Reindeer, after all, can’t survive winter at the North Pole, but they can in Lapland! It follows that Santa’s Village, located in Rovaniemi …

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Nov
25

The Liebster Blog Award

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Thanks so much to Sara Toole Miller for nominating Terminal Verbosity for a Liebster Award! Her blog, which is all about the writer’s life, is a constant source of inspiration to me in my writing journey! The Liebster Blog Award is given to blogs that have less than 200 followers and deserve more recognition and …

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Nov
01

Distopian Dream Girl

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October was a quiet month at Terminal Verbosity. Not only was I busy indulging my francophile tendencies with an amazing trip to Provence, but I was also busy planning my second novel and first National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo for short) effort. Yes, that means that November will be kind of quiet around here as …

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Oct
05

Windsor with Children

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a photo of the Round Tower, Windsor Castle

It wasn’t until I went to link back to my Windsor post that I realized I had not, in fact, ever written it. So here it is, over a month after our return…Ed. Traveling with elementary-aged children typically involves some negotiation and compromise between what the parents want to do and what will keep the …

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Oct
04

Gabriel Patrick, my September Angel

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Gabriel as a newborn

Another September has come and gone. I can already feel the days getting shorter and the light is definitely beginning to wane. Always a month of transition, September has been particularly difficult for me the past five years because the fourteenth of the month marks the untimely death of my father. Although that day was …

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Sep
25

A Photo Journal of Andalucía

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Sta Iglesia Catedral, Malaga

It’s almost time for fall break and choosing this year’s destination was tough. I’m still acting like a kid in a candy store when it comes to planning holidays even though we’ve been in Finland–and therefore tantalizingly close to some of my all-time favorite places–for close to a year now. I mean, I can fly …

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