A Letter to My Students From Your Teacher: Dear Students, Three weeks ago, our days were filled with anticipation for the upcoming spring break. We were finishing the novel “A Separate Peace,” and imaging what it was like to live at the boarding school where the novel takes place. We attempted the Harkness Method of [...]
Author: Julia Boudreau
What Reading Novels Taught Me About Loss
Death has a way of making everything seem trivial. All the rushing, all the worrying, and the drama just feels foolish when staring down the face of death. So far I can’t seem to get death to leave me alone. Even when it isn’t the focus in my life, it’s there, hanging in the winds, [...]
Teaching Time: How to Make Writing Less Intimidating
As an English teacher I’ve come to expect at least one panicked student email the night before a writing assignment is due. In the body of the email I can usually find a phrase such as: “My essay isn’t finished yet!” or “can I get an extension?” As much as I anticipated these emails, I [...]
The Importance of Having a Hobby
I'm in the blue cap! When I was growing up, everyone I knew had a hobby. Of course we didn’t call them that, but that’s what they were. For some of us it was soccer, or select soccer if you were really good, ice skating, or maybe Girl Scouts. For me, it was basketball. Most days [...]
New Years in Austin
I love all holidays. It's a fact. Christmas is by far my favorite, but I love Valentines Day, St. Patrick's Day, Halloween and the 4th of July almost as much. I figure there is too much negative in the world not to celebrate holidays. I'm a big fan of traveling no matter what time of [...]
Shred 415
Hey fitness fans! I love a good workout, and have been so grateful for Shred 415 in St. Louis. When I lived in Dallas, I was able to go to Flywheel classes daily for free thanks to working there, and was searching for something similar in St. Louis. While no cycling studio could quite measure [...]
About Me
Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. Hi! I'm Julia. I work as a teacher during the day, and spend my evenings and weekends writing. I'm a big fan of tennis, traveling, and Chipolte and hate the Oxford comma. One day, I was pitching my writing to outlets when I decided to [...]
Welcome to Cloverandbelle!
Why Cloverandbelle? Way back in 2010, I decided that I was over iphones, and wanted to give androids a try. This phase lasted all of 6 months, but during the changeover I had to create a Gmail account to link to my phone. I couldn't think of a name (because clearly Julia would be too [...]
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