The Connection Specialist:
Dandelion Quills

Julie Vogler

Escaping the Snow Globe Trap

Changing Generational Patterns Changing the Story for the Next Generation In the recently released movie Red One , there's a scene that...

Relationships

Dec 28, 202410 min read

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Every Man For Himself

My whole body went rigid. My lips tingled. I didn’t look over at my boyfriend. I think I forgot he was even there. I was all alone, trapped

Relationships

Jul 1, 20249 min read

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Mercy for Aliens

Inside the mind of a teenager that feels like he doesn't belong Every morning before going to school, I watch Dad as he sleeps in his...

Dec 9, 202313 min read

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Rest In Peace

The elephant in the room called Death

Dec 9, 20234 min read

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False Hope

When the person you want most in the world to pay attention to you...doesn't

Dec 9, 20237 min read

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Don't Cry

We hide our tears so we don't upset others, training ourselves not to feel “Stop crying or I’ll give you something to cry about.” I...

Dec 8, 20234 min read

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O Jerusalem

Who are we following anyway? I sit down at the dinner table at my brother’s house, my cornucopian paper plate of Thanksgiving abundance...

Nov 26, 20234 min read

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Where's My Fairy Godmother?

Healing generational patterns between mother and daughter relationships

Nov 22, 202316 min read

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Laryngitis

How we lose our voices.

Nov 17, 20236 min read

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Receiving a Gift Horse

There's a dark side to gift giving. Non-consensual giving is a form of control, creating covert contracts, and a disrespect of boundaries.

Nov 2, 202320 min read

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Emotional Healing

If I knew then what I know now: a letter to my ex-husband. Owning my part. Dear Rex, Sometimes I wonder what life would have been like if...

Nov 2, 20234 min read

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Broken Glass

Attention seeking behavior is a child's way to seek connection when feeling invisible or in need of comfort. Choosing to ignore or...

Relationships

Nov 2, 20234 min read

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Hit or Miss

Car accidents remind me of how fragile life is. Driving downtown makes me nervous, a labyrinth of one-way streets and construction to...

Relationships

Nov 2, 20233 min read

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To Find a Father

A woman abandons herself in the attempt to provide a father for her children.

Relationships

Sep 8, 20233 min read

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My Inner Child’s Ashes

I laugh as I spin around in the middle of the street, my hands clasped with the woman in front of me. She smiles at me as ashes float around

Aug 25, 20231 min read

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Humble Hotel

Meeting my date's Mother Dearest at their ritzy sterile home.

Aug 25, 20233 min read

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Independence Day

As I loaded the kids’ belongings into the car, my eyes were drawn to the rebel firework overhead and I thanked God it was Independence Day.

Relationships

Aug 25, 20233 min read

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The Mystery of the Tooth Fairy

Brothers trying to find incriminating evidence that the tooth fairy was fabricated.

Aug 22, 20232 min read

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Eve of St. John

For Mom, who loves this picture: Eve of St. John, by Peter Hurd. Partly inspired by the poem "Eve of St. John," by Sir Walter Scott. A young

Jul 9, 20234 min read

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# 3 Lepidopterophobia (Butterfly Phobia)

Both wings folded back, I was staring at a miniature bat. Its buggy eyes stuck out of its head connected to a grotesque thorax

Jun 16, 20235 min read

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