I am delighted to have my very first interview with someone other than myself! Introducing Julie Dearborn, writer, teacher, and brave soul to be first. Describe a significant change/transition/turnover that you have experienced or that you are experiencing currently: I moved to Spain in the early nineties to teach English. I was no longer in my twenties. I moved because I hated my job, was finished with graduate school, which had been the focus of my life, and I was just kind of bored with everything, especially myself. I wanted to recapture the feeling I’d had when I moved to San Francisco a few months after graduating from college in the Midwest: a feeling that every day, even a day that sucked, was exciting and that the next day would be even more exciting, regardless of how good or bad the current day was; a feeling that life was wide open. Every time I stepped out the door, and walked around San Francisco, or took a bus in San Francisco, or drank a latte at a
"In the midst of winter I found in me an Invincible Summer." - Camus ...On exploring strength in its many forms: strong people, strong writing, strong curiosity, obsessions, stances, and loves. Strength as a concept wide enough to encompass fear, truth, vulnerability, and joy.