The World In Between

Walking Alsace

By Julie Callahan on September 10, 2023 • ( 12 )

It was May of last year when I wrote that I was setting off to hike the Alsace region of France. In that post, I speculated when the wheels might fall off my metaphorical bus. It turns out, it was… Read More ›
Brie and me

By Julie Callahan on August 24, 2023 • ( 22 )

It’s been awhile since I’ve written. Although here in Charlottesville we haven’t had the scorching weather of other places, it’s still too hot to do much outdoors. Then today, I found a note on my phone—a journal entry if you… Read More ›
A Story of Needlepoint and Vermeer

By Julie Callahan on May 14, 2023 • ( 7 )

I saw my first Vermeer when I was around ten-years-old. It came together over the course of countless months as I watched my grandmother needlepoint a myriad of colors stitch by stitch into a piece that she christened My Little… Read More ›
Zen and the Art of Travel

By Julie Callahan on April 2, 2023 • ( 9 )

It’s Saturday, April 1st and my grandson, Jack, is about to board a plane. Pat and I flew ahead last weekend. We are waiting for him on the other side. In Paris. Our apartment is set up. Our jet lag… Read More ›
Home

By Julie Callahan on March 6, 2023 • ( 4 )

We had just crossed the border from Spain into France last month when Pat sighed and said, “It’s nice to be back home.” It was, to my mind, an odd thing for him to say. I think of Pat as… Read More ›