: About Me

I am a citizen of the world. I want to find truths that we can all live by, which celebrate diversity, and respect individuality. I currently live with my husband in Patagonian Argentina.

I am a published writer, with an essay in the philosophy anthology, What Do You Believe?:

http://www.otbpublishing.com/books/whatdoyoubelieve.html

My self-published eBooks are:

NO STRANGER TO STRANGE LANDS
A Journey Through Strange Coincidences, Connective Thoughts, and Far Flung Places

From Zürich to Moab, from tropical Polynesia to the farthest corners of Australia, from investigations into what ideas themselves might be to what secrets might be revealed by Synchronicity, from deconstructing Free-Market Ideology to reinventing Spirituality; this multi-layered journey seeks connections between every aspect of the cosmos, from the musical sphere to the stratosphere, and beyond.

SECRECY, DEMOCRACY, AND FASCISM
Lessons from History (FREE eBOOK)

A nation that went to war thinking that it would be quick and easy, but then getting bogged down, becoming polarized, falling into financial difficulties, losing confidence in their government, looking desperately for strong leadership, and falling for conspiracy theories and false accusations about those within and without who oppose the romantic call for cultural purity and supposed morality...?


NO MISSING LINKS
And Other Essays

5 essays celebrating complexity and the connective principle:
"Gandhi Remix" reformulates Gandhi’s Seven Social Sins
"Small Change" puts the health care reform into perspective
"Too Many Notes" is a short essay on concision
"Constructive Universalism" compares this Uruguayan art theory to Ayn Rand’s "objectivism"
"No Missing Links" unveils the illusion of separation

NINE MONTHS IN URUGUAY
Past, Present, Progress

While my husband and I lived in Uruguay, I wrote. Not only did I maintain our blog, “Because the World is Round...,” but I found myself composing poetry, to my own surprise. It was a contemplative time, and as I tried to identify what it was about Uruguayan culture that I found so beguiling, as I dealt with loss, as the birds, the ocean, the sun and the moon spoke to me, a philosophy became.

Go to http://connectivelyspeaking.blogspot.com/p/no-stranger-buy-it.html to see options for purchasing these eBooks.

Find me on the web at:

we fear what we don't understand http://julierbutler.blogspot.com/

Because the World is Round... http://thebecausetheworldisroundblog.blogspot.com/

Julie R. Butler on Scribd http://www.scribd.com/julie%20r%20butler

Julie R. Butler on Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/Julie-R-Butler/e/B0044PQG4Q/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0

Julie R. Butler on Smashwords http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/julierbutler

Expat Daily News Latin America http://www.expatdailynewslatinamerica.com/

Expat Daily News http://www.expatdailynews.com/

My passion is ...

being engaged in the world around me, travel, writing about being engaged and traveling

I know too much about ...

nothing

My parents always told me ...

do unto others as you would have others do unto you

My childhood ambition ...

to be the teacher's pet

My favorite memory ...

seeing the Mayan pyramids at Palenque, Mexico for the first time

Why I write ...

to get my thoughts straight, to keep from going insane

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Democracy Now!; McClatchy News; Uruguayan newspapers

My first job ...

Casual Corners women's clothing store

My best moment ...

when I met my husband

My inspiration ...

Mahatmas Gandhi

Politics, News & Issues > Constitutional & Contract Law Should a woman have the right to choose abortion?

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A woman should have the right to choose abortion because she should be able to decide what will happen to her own body based on her own beliefs. This viewpoint would seem very democratic and in line with every other issue where the guiding principles are personal responsibility and respect for individual rights, yet this is one of the very few issues where these principles simply fail to apply. In this debate, religious fervor overtakes civil discussion, medical knowledge, and the right to privacy and self-determination. Through ideology, pure conjecture, and flat out misinformation, oppon...

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Writing:

• Creative Writing Bronze
• Marketplace Approved Writer
• Helium Charter Member