Julie Smith

  People have tried to make a clear distinction of where the line seperating insanity from creativity lies.  Where is that line?  Who can describe it?  And does it even exist? Read More

With all the comedic entities there have been over the years, it seems that all of them have come from hollow beginings that led to sadder endings. Fanny Brice, the original 'Funny Lady" (Pun definatly intended) came from a broken lower class home, and throughout her life she struggled with love.  ... Read More

I'm aware that this sounds like a silly question, but there is no such thing.  Behind the funny lady facade, Lucille Ball was a power house of television entertainment, eventually becoming president of her own company.  But would this have happened if Desi Arnaz never met her? Read More

Well, I have, or I believe I do anyways, and I recall it in daily life.  Does anybody else ever feel as if they came back again---from the person you were then? Read More

I myself am a young writer and every story I have written takes place in Brooklyn.  I guess this is because I'm in love with how Brooklyn used to be; romantic and nostalgic, a real sense of what a neighborhood was.  There were people talking to each other out windows and children playing in the ... Read More

Abortion was around far longer than Feminism and Planned Parenthood.  Those two groups only forwarded a safe way to get an abortion because at the time, abortion was one of the most common killers of mothers. Read More

I know that I am one, and I know what that means to me, so why am I hesitant to mention that to men?  Has that word FEMINISM taken on a bad connotation?  If so, why has this happened?  Did we do it to ourselves, or was it the men who were resistant to the change trying to bring it down? Read More

Niether man nor woman, unseen but everywhere, peaceful but harsh, a mess of contradictions that no one will figure out until, well you know.  But what do I know?  I'm thirteen. Read More

The fact here is, if you take away a women's right to choose, shes still gonna get that abortion if she needs it. If abortion is legal, which I believe it should be, then she can get it done safely and not in some back alley with unsterile utensils. It's safer for the mother, and I believe the ... Read More

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Julie Smith