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

Latest posts

  1. The gift that keeps on giving… — April 16, 2012
  2. And so I said goodbye to the red dress — April 11, 2012
  3. Getting Crafty – Built-in Purse Keychain — February 6, 2012
  4. Going Paperless — February 1, 2012
  5. Dream Home — January 27, 2012

Most commented posts

  1. The skinny on lead in crock pots – It may surprise you! — 51 comments
  2. Make it From Scratch – Home-Canned Bloody Mary Mix — 8 comments
  3. My anti-depressants of choice? Endorphins & Serotonin. — 8 comments
  4. Bisphenol-A – It’s even worse than we thought! — 7 comments
  5. First Impressions of Finland — 7 comments

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Oct 04

Gabriel Patrick, my September Angel

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Family, Musings

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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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Travel

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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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Sep 24

Never say never

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Cooking, domestic bliss, Entertainment, Expatriates

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Photo from the State Library of New South Wales collection (http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/)

When Gabriel was about 18 months old, I got together with a group of my friends from college. Several of us had children within a few months of each other, so there was a lot of talk that weekend about how life had changed and what we had to look forward to as our children …

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Sep 08

Naerofjorden & Aurlandsfjorden

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Featured, Travel, Traveling with Children

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norway

As a long trip comes to a close, you always hope there will be something spectacular left so that you can head home on a high note. I wish I could take full credit for the stunning end of our journey in Norway, but I have to admit that it was luck that we did …

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Sep 07

Bergen

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Featured, Travel, Traveling with Children

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forest in Bergen

We returned to Ålesund just long enough to board the Hurtigruten bound for Bergen. This was the one part of the trip when I felt that Fjord Tours sort of dropped the ball–at no point during booking do you realize that you can’t get on this boat until after midnight! That left us hanging out …

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Sep 06

Day Trips from Helsinki – Porvoo

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Finland, Travel, Traveling with Children

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porvoo

Heading east from Helsinki on the King’s Road (Kuninkaantie), you can reach the charming river-side town of Porvoo in under an hour. From May to September, you can also reach Porvoo by boator cruise there and take a bus back to Helsinki to save a little time (the boat ride is just over three hours, …

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Sep 05

Day Trips from Helsinki – Mustion Linna

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helsinki, Traveling with Children

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Roman-style ruins

Taking advantage of the nice days and the new car, we headed west of Helsinki for a trip down the King’s Road to Mustion Linna. This eighteenth-century manor house brings together neo-classical and rococo architecture in what is the largest wooden house in Finland. Although we opted out of the one-hour tour of the manor …

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Sep 01

Ålesund and Beyond!

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Featured, Living Abroad, Travel, Traveling with Children

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photograph of Ålesund

We left Oslo via train and headed north to Dombås and then on to Åndalsnes on what ended up being quite a scenic ride on the Rauma Railway. While the first leg of the journey cuts up the middle of Norway and takes you past Lillehammer and the home of Peer Gynt, the second leg …

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Aug 31

Wordless Wednesday – Lily in Porvoo!

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Finland, Travel, Traveling with Children, Wordless Wednesday

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a photo of a little girl under a statue in Porvoo, Finland

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Aug 30

Pirate Beach, and Other Foibles of the Expat Life

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Expatriates, Finland, Musings

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a photo of the beach

When I went to live in France as a student in 1996, I had the choice of living on the International floor in the dorms, living with a host family, or living in an apartment with French students. At a time when I was particularly interested in asserting my independence, but still keen to immerse …

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