As one who has always pondered the meaning of life Julie's life journey has taken her to many places and is an unusual story. Trained as a youth worker, the first journey was a three month stay in a remote Papua New Guinea village in 1973 followed by a time in Alice Springs working with cyclone Tracy refugees from Darwin and Central Australian Aboriginals. After further training as an Orientation and Mobility instructor she spent some years working with the blind, followed by two years in Europe as an actor in a travelling play. Marriage and three children was her next career during which she developed her interest in writing In mid-1999, the family moved to America for four years. On returning to Australia the thought of settling at home was interrupted by a four year stint in China with her husband It was there that she joined an international writers group. While part of this group she realised her story might be worth telling as a result of the enthusiastic interest she received in her short pieces on travel, culture and spiritual searchings. China was followed by a year in Singapore where she began to put her stories together. Returning to Australia in early 2011 she is now training others in home decoration and organisation and giving talks to groups on her spiritual journey. Typical of the sandwich generation she provides support and encouragement to children, seven grandchildren and a mother in her nineties.