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
Julia Sneden's archive of articles.
Lessons From a Lifetime in the Classroom: YOU AND I, ME, US, THEY, THEM, WHATEVER!
"Just seeing your face at Mike and I’s wedding ..." Unbelievable, you say? Even more unbelievable is the fact that the writer is a graduate student at a major university. The child obviously doesn’t lack brains; what she lacks is proper training in the use of her native tongue. more »
CultureWatch, August 2010
Its author, Daisy Hay, has a recent doctorate in English Literature from Cambridge, and currently teaches at Oxford. This is her first book, and one may only hope that others will follow. Her scholarship is impeccable (copious notes, a fine bibliography, and a very thorough index), but it’s her careful interpretation of the dynamics of a group of youngsters who were striving to be heard and acknowledged, that excites a reader’s intellect and touches the heart. more »
Heart Song; Thoughts on loss
She was an in-law, a chum of 45 years, someone I loved. It is going to be very hard to forego the bi-monthly phone conversations in which we shared family news. We used to talk about our splendid children. These days, we talked mostly about our splendid grandchildren. more »
Downsized by Corporate America; Frustrations of a Recipe Cook
It’s not that I use a recipe for every meal these days, nor do I shop all at once on a Saturday: I’m no longer that hidebound. But when I do cook from a recipe, I expect it to work, and when corporate America downsizes a standard canned or bottled or boxed product without calling attention to the change, it really throws me. I doubt that I am alone. more »
