Julia Sneden

Julia Sneden is a writer, friend, wife, mother, Grandmother, care-giver and Senior Women Web's Resident Observer. Her career has included editorial work for Sunset Magazine, 20th Century Fox and Universal Studios as well as teaching. Julia is a passionate opponent of this country’s educational system, which she feels is floundering. She lives in North Carolina. jbsneden can be reached by email (at) triad.rr.com

Still Learning

Still Learning: What Are We Teaching?
Small Priorities (Still Learning: Lessons from a Lifetime in the Classroom)
September Song (Still Learning: Lessons from a lifetime in the classroom)
Still Learning: Lessons From a Lifetime in the Classroom By The Dawn's Early ( not-so-very) Light
Still Learning: Lessons from a Lifetime in the Classroom; Eyes on the Prize
Still Learning: Lessons from a Lifetime in the Classroom, Foundations

Still Learning: Learning Differently
Still Learning: Getting Past It
Still Learning:Despair/Disrepair
Still Learning: Old Dogs/New Tricks
Still Learning: Testing and The Internet
Still Learning: Parents and Teachers
Still Learning: The Bored of Education

Seniority
Age Rage
Get Well Soon and Swimming Laps
Freeze Frame
Stepping Up
Kitchen Stigmata
On Becoming Eponymous
Homing In
This Old Man
New and Improved?
New & Not Improved Enough
Blue Plate Special
Autumn Song
Knowing Things
Missing Persons
Trolling for Christmas
Millenniumania
Age Rage Revisited
Things My Grandmothers Taught Me
Correspondence Course
"Did So!" "Did Not!" Children, Children
The Occasional Gardener
Influendless
Cellular Etiquette
Entirely Unsuitable
Simple Things to Keep Kids Busy, Part One: From Under Twos to Six
Simple Things to Keep Kids Busy, Part Two: From Age Six to After Fourteen
Label/Libel
Sitting Ducks
Baby Talk
Magic Moments at the End of the Summer
Moving On
Sew, What!
Tick....Tick...Ticked Off!
Gatherings
A Grandmother by Any Other Name
Now, Boys
The Comfort Zone
After the Fight Was Over (With Apologies to Clement Moore)
Over the Hill...and laughing on the down slope
Dante in the City
The Day the Baby Fell in Love
Plum Crazy
DisGRAYceful (A Hair-Raising Tale)
Foreclosing on Closure
Facing It
If The Shoe Fits....you can bet it's not fashionable
Cued Speech - A System of Enhanced Lip Reading
Misspending My Dotage
Fireflies and Summer Rain
Napkin Rings and Saving Ways
Going to War
Hello, Boomers ...and welcome to the other side of the hill
The Slippery Slope, Part One
The Slippery Slope, Part Two
Chrismas Presence
Ambivalence
The Slippery Slope, Part Three
GUILTY AS CHARGED but not nearly sane
A Good Breakfast
Loving Books
Kristin's Wedding
Buying the Pharm
Creeds and Pledges
On Becoming Transparent
Relativity in a Nuclear Age
The Bosky Dell
ADvent is Here Again
Hands in the Dough
Keeping It Light
Looking Up
April Again, and Not a Moment Too Soon
Flashpots
Polishing the Past
Nomenclature
Confessions of a Compulsive Mom
For the Birds
Short Shrift
Release
A Fool for Fall
Raising the Profile
Touching History
A Proposal
Buying The Pharm #2
Another look at the mess that is our health care industry
To Market, To Market
Summer, 1945
Built to Last
Going Home Again
CamPAIN
Of Tomboys and Girlie Men
Taking It As It Comes
Aunt Envy
Thinking Thankful
Goosed
The Blue and the Red Blues
The Creativity Sweeps
The Seven Ages of Women
On Screeching to a Stop
The Displaced Heart
Short of Leg
Sitting Firm
On Pins and Needles
Well and Good and Just Fine, Thanks
An XYZ Affair
The Shank of the Year
Olympiad
Demographic Idiocy
Chipping Away
Connections
Afterwards
The Right Words
Getting Past It
The Silent Generation? Sez Who!
Septendecimania
Christmas, 1938 written by Julia's mother, Mary Kelsey Brown
Noblesse Abused
A Lesson for Today
Leaps and Bounds
The Wedding Dress
A Spoonful of History
I Think, Therefore I Amb
Auto Mated
The L-Word-O-V-E-R
Fall Folly
Sighsmology
Musings on the Grand Life
Drugged
Rules of the Road
M's Day
Going Forth on the Fourth
No Sweat Election 2008: In the Nick of Time!
What's So Black About Friday?
Fa La La La Frantic
Branded
Shrink Shrank Shrunken
Niggly Things
The Green-Eyed Monster as Constant Companion
Hard Copy

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