Category Archives: Simple Life

…of the day: a northern music video

By Julie Laurin | Published: September 2, 2010

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!It took a bit longer to put this together but I finally managed to find the right song for it last night! Here’s another video I put together of my time up north. Enjoy. 1

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When a girl loves a girl

By Julie Laurin | Published: August 24, 2010

I think that blogging has changed the way some of us write. It changed it for me. It made me think more about what people might want to hear rather than what I had to say. It made me wonder what people would be interested in, rather than what was on my mind or in [...]

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Thoughts from up north

By Julie Laurin | Published: August 22, 2010

I’ve returned from my trip to Northern Ontario. Unfortunately, I’ve come down with the worst cold I’ve had since I fought H1N1 for six weeks last year! That’s why things have been so slow at my end. But in the meantime, I thought I’d share a little journal entry I wrote while I was up [...]

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Lessons learned from unemployment

By Julie Laurin | Published: August 8, 2010

Late one evening in June, after a huge workout, a large meal and one heck of an awesome day spent with my sister, I was packing up my stuff to head home to crash for the night. Work had been insanely busy due to a project that involved some major tax changes and I needed [...]

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Civil disobedience and ideas for revolution

By Julie Laurin | Published: June 27, 2010

A lot of the news and the buzz online is revolving around the G20 protests happening this weekend in Toronto. I’ve being paying very little attention to it. I don’t trust the media to accurately report anything that involves protests, gatherings or disobedience because I find that they’re not very keen on discovering the truth [...]