Author Archives: Julie Lyles Carr

We turned off of our street on the island and began the long climb over the expansion bridge. I'd stuffed photo albums, my wedding dress, some baby items, and important documents in the back of our SU...

Julie had a chance to chat with Shannon Lafayette, a photographer who was a witness to the devastation of Hurricane Harvey. See what it looks like, what she's telling her kids, and how you can help. S...

Let's begin by getting something very, very clear. I am no organizing maven. At all. Exhibit A thru C: the current state of my purse. My makeup bag. The interior of my van. And let's just say that we ...

We were all in a long row, my family of ten, singing at church. At the time, my oldest was sixteen and my youngests, my twins, were newborns. My oldest kids at that point had been in the baby game a l...

We started this summer with great dreams of down time and travel and recreation. And now, summer is quickly ticking toward fall. And those great dreams have yet to find legs. Competing work schedules,...

Bona Fide. It's a Latin phrase. We take it to mean real, authentic, genuine. A bona fide antique. A bona fide painting. A bona fide diamond. But that's not actually the meaning of those two Latin word...

There’s just something about splashing around in the water on a hot summer day that makes summer feel like, well, summer. We got to have a little summer preview of a new place to play the long h...

It seems to me when it comes to keeping teens constructively busy over the summer, there are a couple of categories of teens between which we’ve got to distinguish. Your t...

I move fast.I talk fast.I type fast.I decide fast. And I drink coffee really, really fast. I don’t like loops that stay open.I don’t like for feelings and tempers to ...

I can feel the symptoms rising up.I’m tired.And the pantry in my kitchen?It’s making me crazy. Yep.The kitchen pantry is my canary in the coal mine, so to speak.And when I hit K...