Julia Sneden
Julia Sneden was a writer, friend, wife, mother, Grandmother, care-giver and Senior Women Web's Resident Observer. Her career included editorial work for Sunset Magazine, 20th Century Fox and Universal Studios as well as teaching. Julia was a passionate opponent of this country’s educational system, which she felt was floundering. She will be greatly missed as the heart of this website and this editor's friend of fifty years.
Julia Sneden's archive of articles.
Book Reviews: Mother Warriors and Cancer; 50 Essential Things to Do
Mother Warriors
by Jenny McCarthy, © 2008
Plume Books/Penguin Group
Paperback: 217 pp plus 27 pp of resources
If you know anyone with a child who has received a diagnosis of autism, information about this little book, along with the author’s earli… more »
Utterly Unsuitable
The week ahead
Holds lots of dread:
I have to buy a bathing suit.
I’d be a dope
To have much hope
Of finding fit (don’t mention cute).
In fact if my long search is fruitless
I may well have to dive in suitless. Julia Sneden writes and rhymes about… more »
The Bored of Education
Julia Sneden writes:
"While it is often left to the populace to vote on bond issues creating
new schools, the need for school maintenance and repair seems to me to
be every bit as vital. Too often it is shoved aside for other matters,
buried so… more »