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Julie Freed

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I live in a sleepy artist community on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. My days are spent teaching, reading, and writing. With degrees in mathematics and chemistry, I've taught university undergrads and graduate students for the past decade. I also work with classroom educators and students - sharing the beauty and language of mathematics and its ever present patterns in art, literature, and nature.

On the weekends you'll find us on the soccer field, the boat, the beach, exploring the barrier islands, biking, and always with a good read close at hand.

Love does indeed conquer it! ...more

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I never kept a diary or a journal any longer than a family vacation.

I never dreamed of being an author.

The summer of 2005, at age 32 my life transformed. My home was leveled by Hurricane Katrina. My husband of seven years left suddenly that same week. Holding my one year old daughter, a single mother looked back at me from the mirror. My life split in two - Before and After Ka

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Naked: Stripped by a Man and Hurricane Katrina

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“Education is the only thing you can ever truly call your own.”
― Julie Freed, Naked: Stripped by a Man and Hurricane Katrina

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Julie’s Quotes

“And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.”
― Nora Ephron, Heartburn

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“The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.”
― Muriel Rukeyser

tags: inspiration

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“Nature is mother that gives happiness to humanity,
It sublimes the fire in us by going on in our life,
That is the law of Nature,
It is a cycle of Creation, Restoration and destruction,
A human can’t do anything but to accept it,
Those accepts the law becomes one with nature,
And for those who doesn’t,
Nature also doesn’t accept humans and everyone knows the consequences,
But foolish people keep on doing bloody experiment!”
― Mahiraj Jadeja, Love Forever

tags: nature, poem, poetry

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