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Seasoned Marriage Advice for Taylor Swift as She Enters Her Wifey Era: How my husband and I managed to still love each other after 9,985 days together
Me and my boo getting ready for our anniversary dinner. Check out my latest essay with one wifey giving advice to a future wifey. Thanks...
Julie Cali
Sep 131 min read


How My Family Survived Forty Days and Forty Fights Minimizing Processed Food
Phot of one of my last heart-shaped banana bread loaves. Click below to try to change my children’s love language from sweet treats to...
Julie Cali
Aug 261 min read


How My Husband and I Became Podcast Groupies
Meeting our favorite author and podcast host Bianca Marais. Please read my latest essay about how my husband and I ended up traveling...
Julie Cali
Jun 291 min read


Mommy Midlife Crisis: Are my dreams more important than my kids?
Picture of the author's three children. We can have it all. Job, ambition, kids... Right? But maybe sometimes we can't, and that is okay...
Julie Cali
May 221 min read


What I Wish I Knew Before Landing A Literary Agent and Going Out on Submission to Book Publishers.
The author holding her book baby, Book Club Beauties. I've been trying to get traditionally published for four years now! My latest essay...
Julie Cali
Mar 291 min read


Do You Have to Speak Spanish to Be Hispanic?
Photo by Jo Tyson at Unsplash. Check out my latest essay about being Hispanic without speaking Spanish! Read my take on being called a...
Julie Cali
Feb 261 min read


Being Catcalled While With My Children in Broad Daylight: how I learned sexual harassment doesn't end with motherhood
Click the link to read my latest essay! All claps are appreciated. #essay #sexualharassment #women #equality #thishappenedtome...
Julie Cali
Feb 121 min read


Falling In Love With My Father's MistressHow I finally understood my father's amor a la patria
El Salvador's Lago de Coatepeque. Photo by Julie Calidonio. It's very emotional to have this published as I'm boarding my flight home...
Julie Cali
Jan 211 min read


Tales of A Forty-Four-Year-Old Hoo-Ha
Are you there, God? It’s me, Julie Cali. Can we talk about the women’s health gap? Photo by Rodion Kutsaiev at Unsplash Yes, I’m calling...
Julie Cali
Jan 91 min read


When Your Husband Has a Boo, and It’s Not You…
Photo of my husband at Notre Dame stadium which he inadvertently sent to me. Learning to deal with my husband’s budding bromance has been...
Julie Cali
Dec 17, 20241 min read


Why I Filed A Complaint with The Department of Justice Against My Son’s School District: Teaching my son, who lives with type 1 diabetes, to advocate for himself and others
With #type1diabetes , you can do everything right 99.99% of the time, but it will only take one untreated low to lose my son. Those are...
Julie Cali
Dec 11, 20241 min read


My Long-Time Conservative Mother Broke Up with Her Boyfriend Because He Said VP Harris Slept Her Way to the Top
My grandmother would have been ninety-seven this week! In her memory and at my mother's suggestion, I wrote an essay about my mother...
Julie Cali
Oct 21, 20241 min read
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