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Do u have a blogging practice? Just posted about my upcoming BlogHer '11 session which addresses that very thing. http://tiny.cc/1u22t

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Martin's Blog: Are You Dad Enough?

5/15/12 7:49pm by JulieW
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(Over the past ten years, my German husband Martin and I have blogged together on our Julie and Martin site. This is his recent post regarding magazine covers and how dads are represented or not in the media.)Maybe you have heard about the magazine cover featuring a mom nursing her three-year-old?I first heard about it on Facebook. Then Julie told me about it. And then we saw things about it on the news and on Saturday Night Live.  Read more >

Oh, Really, Bob Morris? A Former Future Girl Scout Feminist Defends the Tribe

2/22/12 11:59pm by JulieW
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Girl Guides Canoe

Did you hear the news about the Indiana politician who thinks the Girl Scouts are a "radicalized organization" that's influencing American girls to grow up to be feminists, lesbians and Communists? Rep.  Read more >

The Drunk Driver Who Hit Me Got a Slap on the Wrist

8/19/11 9:02am by JulieW
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On Monday the drunk driver who hit me a few months ago -- earlier in my pregnancy -- pleaded guilty to two of the five charges filed against her. She pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors: driving drunk (OVI, or operating a vehicle impaired) and for failure to maintain distance between my vehicle.  Read more >

Manifestation: Developing a Blogging Practice Makes Perfect

7/8/11 9:22am by JulieW
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Julie Weckerlein will be speaking on The Write Brain: Essential Blog Content Development Workshop panel at BlogHer's 2011 conference on August 5, 2011. It's an extended session running through two afternoon time slots, from 1:15 to 4pm; Julie's "Manifestation" portion of the workshop starts at 3:15pm.  On a late summer evening in 2001, I was seated in a dark corner of my then-fiancé's living room in Erlangen, Germany, silhouetted by the blue glare of his family's ancient HP monitor.I hit "publish" on my first introductory entry, and thus officially began a personal, and ultimately professional, blogging career that's spanned a whole decade and an entire globe.It's pretty safe to say I've blogged about all sort of topics in just about every environment possible.In 2003, I typed out pregnancy updates from the cluttered office of my Italian townhouse, my first home as a married woman. Busted! Micro-blogging from DisneyWorld, Summer 2009.   Read more >

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Julie and Martin

Beginning as a wedding planning site in 2001, we've detailed our marriage and family ever since! It's been an adventure w/ moves from Germany to Italy to Washington DC, from the Alps to the Pentagon. And we're still going strong!

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Full Name
Julie Weckerlein
Member Since
January 2010
About Me: 

It all started when an American girl fell in love with a German boy.

In 2001, I started a little website for friends and family to follow our wedding plans. At the time, I was a US Airman and he was a tank commander in the German Army. We were marrying in Germany, but with friends and family around the world, we wanted them to follow along with our plans. But then the terrorist attacks on 9/11 happened, and our site took on a new role as friends and family wanted to stay connected to us as our respective militaries responded to that.

It's been nearly 10 years and while the site's evolved, it's always been a reflection of our lives as a military family. A little bit of this, a little bit of that as we moved from Germany to Italy to the Pentagon, with time in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Now living in the Washington DC area with two daughters and another baby on the way, we’re both juggling careers and family and my military service in the Air Force Reserve.

I was recently a professional blogger and web content manager for the Department of Defense, but now work in public affairs for the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington DC. Martin used to work in the banking industry, but is now a full-time stay-at-home dad to our three children. And all along, we just keep updating and sharing our lives with photos, video and some insight and humor.

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Writer, Blogger, Photographer, Air Force
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Washington DC

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