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Julie Bolitho
Nov 18, 20177 min read
A Taste for Travel: On Teaching Travel Literature
In 2012, I was asked by Saint Clare's College to teach an undergraduate literature course entitled, A Taste for Travel. While the...
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Julie Bolitho
Nov 12, 20171 min read
My Dog, the Zen Master
I'm pleased to showcase a piece I've written about my sweet Boston Terrier, Janie, and the ways in which Janie has been one of my...
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Julie Bolitho
Oct 16, 20171 min read
Trapped in an Immigration Nightmare
To see my recent article, please visit: http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2017/10/17/trapped-in-an-immigration-nightmare-how-a-s...
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Julie Bolitho
Oct 1, 20177 min read
Light in the Carpet
*This piece was written 2006, during my final years of undergrad. It found a home with a youth-oriented journal many years later. We...
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Julie Bolitho
Jul 31, 20165 min read
Smile
A spoken-word poem performed at the Catholic Chaplaincy in Oxford University. Smile by Julie Bolitho Thursday. I’m walking down St....
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Julie Bolitho
Jul 8, 20161 min read
Songs from the Heartscape: An Interview with Anoushka Shankar
© Julie Bolitho. “Songs from the Heartscape: An Interview with Anoushka Shankar,” Cover story. Platform magazine. New Delhi, India: July...
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Julie Bolitho
Apr 16, 20156 min read
On the Death of a Student
I learned early this morning that one of my students from last summer committed suicide. I don't even like the phrase, "committed...
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Julie Bolitho
Feb 25, 20155 min read
Heart Real Estate
First performed at the Catweazle Club in Oxford. Heart Real Estate Julie Bolitho “You’re taking up too much real estate in my mind,” she...
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Julie Bolitho
Feb 5, 20155 min read
Why Drink Green Tea?
In 2005, in the days before I’d discovered veganism, I was an overweight university student eating typical processed foods and regularly...
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Julie Bolitho
Jan 18, 20156 min read
When East Meets West: Frontiers in Yoga
Some of the greatest living Indian yogis attribute the West with ‘saving yoga’ – quite a statement when one thinks of overpriced,...
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Julie Bolitho
Sep 13, 20146 min read
Veganism Changed My Life
Within two months of marrying, my husband and I rescued a dog. This may not seem like a significant detail (with the exception that my...
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Julie Bolitho
Aug 10, 20144 min read
What August Brings
August's bright loneliness crept into my bones again today--late this year, but the sky has been changing all the same for over a week....
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Julie Bolitho
Mar 11, 20141 min read
The Cancer Gang
initiation is painful but quick before you know you’ve signed up been beaten down you’re enrolled entangled in a web created by...
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Julie Bolitho
Aug 12, 20134 min read
Imaginary Caller
When I was a child, I dreamed of killing my father—silencing his manic rages and saving the paintings on the wall from his large and...
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Julie Bolitho
Jul 29, 20131 min read
in the kingdom
my dog uses urine like an empire would a flag as if he says, “With this drop I claim this land for the royal line of Spaniel. No Labrador...
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Julie Bolitho
Jul 29, 20131 min read
Grief
Dena asks me, “How do you cope with grief?” and all I can think of are the licked-clean broken eggshells scattered with pinecones along...
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Julie Bolitho
Oct 8, 20121 min read
Representations of Disease in Children's Literature
My master's dissertation, Representations of Disease in Children’s Literature, is available on Amazon.
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Julie Bolitho
Jul 25, 20121 min read
Exits & Entrances
I was so fortunate to work this summer with Michael Manteck, a singer-songwriter, just finishing his undergraduate degree at Oxford...
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Julie Bolitho
Jul 31, 20102 min read
Leaf Writers' Magazine Interview
The day of my twenty-first birthday I flew to Ukraine on a travel grant which allowed me to work with orphans outside Chernobyl Zone 1....
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Julie Bolitho
Jul 1, 20101 min read
brushing away
after sex when my ear is pressed to the skin above your heart and your hand is brushing the damp strands of brown hair sticking to my...
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