Julie Vick
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Julie Vick
@julievickwriter.bsky.social
Humor writer and author of a humorous advice book for introverted parents. Words in New Yorker, McSweeney’s, and my phone’s notes app.

Substack with funny stuff and writing tips:

https://julievick.substack.com/
Thanks to @lisaborders.bsky.social for doing a funny guest rec for my most recent newsletter.

Lisa’s book Last Night at the Disco is out next week 🤩

julievick.substack.com/p/september-...
October 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
My personal assistant. Just need to teach her to make copies.
September 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This Is Just To Say

My kids
have packed their
own lunches today

But left this
container
in the icebox

so empty
and so cold
June 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Me trying to figure out my kids’ sports and activities calendar this spring.
April 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Me trying to figure out my #awp25 session attending plan:
March 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Me when I’m out of the house past dark on a weeknight:
March 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Your outie immediately opens the mail when it arrives and doesn’t let it sit unopened for weeks.
February 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Important #caturday update.
February 2, 2025 at 12:12 AM
My co-workers are not happy they have been shut out of the office:
January 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Pairs well with this apparently evergreen one:
January 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Me tonight:
January 16, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Disappointing that one of the stats on this NextDoor Rewind wasn’t, “There were 500 million online fights between neighbors this year.”
December 21, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Happy #catboxsunday !

Biscuit takes his boxes very seriously.
December 8, 2024 at 3:57 PM
I was today years old when I learned there are birds called bushtit and tufted titmouse.
December 6, 2024 at 3:18 PM
Me on my first trip to the grocery store this week vs. me on my sixth trip:
November 27, 2024 at 9:25 PM
When you want to work on a puzzle but you have a cat.
November 26, 2024 at 10:38 PM
A while back I was trying to make a humor piece with Thanksgiving poems work and couldn’t quite get it to gel. So please enjoy this random outtake from it.
November 23, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Made this important purchase this weekend.
November 18, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Your account in one image
November 18, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Happy #catboxsunday

It’s technically a bag but being used like a box, so going to count it.
November 18, 2024 at 1:50 AM
Some heroes don’t wear capes.
November 14, 2024 at 3:18 PM