About Jules
(*I don’t always talk/type in the third person.)
My resume reads like a misprint. I’ve been many things: a clown, a registered massage therapist, a muralist, a colouring book designer and perhaps most proudly, a breakfast barista for two dozen chimpanzees at a sanctuary in the Congo.
What kind of writing cred do I have?
Once upon a time I was the editor-in-chief of Harrowsmith magazine. Other braggy bits include published articles in Cottage Life, Our Homes, Canadian Running, Travelife, FASHION, Massage Therapy Canada, The Globe and Mail, The Vancouver Sun and Mabuhay—the inflight magazine of Philippines Airlines.
What else? I’m also the author of Free to a Good Home: With Room for Improvement (Caitlin Press), Trail Mix: 920km on the Camino de Santiago (Rocky Mountain Books); Been There, Ate That: A Candy-coated Childhood and The Wisdom Found in Hen’s Teeth (both titles, Pottersfield Press). You will have to pace until this fall for the release of my travel memoir, Trips That Went South: From Point A to Beware (Pottersfield Press).
Why in the world should you subscribe?
Subscribing to Jules is Out of Office will permit you to receive instant access to my latest and greatest post and publication archives. Otherwise, you’re totally missing out on everything, really, and won’t know about riveting things like electric catfish, lionfish burgers or the museum dedicated to an Icelandic guy who was 7’7.
Keep in mind that I am often Out of Office and have a real day job so you won’t be inundated with stuff. I plan to post every Saturday but sometimes I’ll opt to be totally off the grid for three weeks in Bonaire or the boonies and you won’t hear a peep from me!
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