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Articles by
Julie Vick
Julie Vick is the author of Babies’ Don’t Make Small Talk (So Why Should I?): The Introvert’s Guide to Surviving Parenthood. Her writing has also appeared in New Yorker Daily Shouts, Parents magazine, and the notes app on her smartphone. She writes a Substack about humor and writing called Humor Me.
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February 25, 2025I’m a Typo, and in This Age of AI, I’m the Real Hero
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March 6, 2024We Are the Babies of the World, and We Are Keeping Track of People Who Are Being Jerks About Us
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January 1, 2024A Camping Trip with Young Kids, as Imagined by Me Before Having Kids
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May 5, 2023Serving Meals to Young Children or Working in an Upscale Restaurant?
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December 16, 2022Holiday Air Travel Haiku
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January 18, 2022Collective Nouns for Parenting
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August 20, 20212021 Parenting Back-to-School Bingo
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April 20, 2021Alanis Morisette’s “Ironic” Revised for Exasperated Parents
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June 30, 2020Would-You-Rathers for Parents During Quarantine
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April 16, 2020Living Through a Pandemic or Potty Training a Toddler?
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November 21, 2019Times I’ve Silently Belted “Let it Go” to Cope With Corporate Culture
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September 5, 2019Famous Opening Lines Rewritten for Back-to-School Time
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March 10, 2025As an American Jew, I Feel Completely Reassured for My Safety Now That Trump Has Targeted the Epicenter of American Antisemitism, Columbia University
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March 18, 2025Senator Schumer Votes to Let the Big Wooden Horse into Troy
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March 12, 2025DOGE-Inspired Spring Cleaning
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March 5, 2025Short Conversations with Poets: Dong Li
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