The prophet would have been 70 today. We miss him.
Happy to see that my version of ‘Instant Karma’ has just been called out by Cover Lay Down as a worthy tribute.
Instant Karma by John Lennon October 9, 2010
Parenthood – So Much to Look Forward To! May 19, 2010
Just two weeks until our official due date! A coworker turned me on to this website, where parents share their fondest moments of their children. Highly entertaining. I can hardly wait to see how quickly my beautiful blue couch gets the ‘kid treatment’.
Helpie McHelperson was helping us pack because we were moving.
Just Kids February 23, 2010
Well, I am six months pregnant now and loving every second of it. I have a stack ten high of baby, parenting and pregnancy books and feel that I must spend every spare moment learning something about this little lady inside of me. But then I got hooked by an excerpt in the latest Rolling Stone mag – Patti Smith’s new book, “Just Kids”, about her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe. I ran right out and bought the book. What a fabulous read. It is so satisfying to read a great artist’s recollections of her youth, of her first creative stirrings. So many beautiful and hideous skeletons, so much providence and magic. I am inspired by the story of Patti and Robert, and it makes me cherish my own memories, journey, transgressions and achievements. So many stories I’d like to tell, but hesitate for fear of who they might expose, embarass, upstage. All in good time. I have faith there is time for everything.
Right now is the time for creating my own flesh and blood, and I have never felt clearer or more alive. I like to think of this little kicking, dancing, flipping creature as my greatest masterpiece.
144 BPM December 3, 2009
I suppose I am really beginning to believe that I have a life growing inside me. So many miracles happening in our lives. This one is such a gift, I am humbled beyond words, but hope that in the months to come I’ll be able to express this experience in detail and with eloquence. Baby deserves that. Thank you baby, for coming into our lives just when you did.
Art and Love November 2, 2009
Well, aside from getting engaged last night ( best Halloween ever! ), the second most enthusiastic news I can share is that we visited the SFMOMA today and I was mighty delighted by the multi-media works of Candice Breitz. With ‘Mother’, six different video screens orchestrated clips of 6 famous actresses in roles portraying the often difficult mother/child relationship. It was funny, disturbing, and totally engaging.
Plus, I had a really handsome fiance by my side. 
20 Years: All That’s Changed is Everything and Nothing August 15, 2009
I’ve just returned from 10 glorious days in Kodiak, Alaska for my 20 year high school reunion. I captured 8 hours of video, wrote 3 new songs, and took scores of photos. Best of all, I reconnected with classmates and THE WILD. I can still smell the smoke from the driftwood fires, the fish rotting in the creeks, the salt air cleaning me inside and out. Here are the lyrics to a song that I penned with my pal, Jennifer Beardsley. I performed it at our 20 year reunion party at El Chicano’s. It was written for our classmates, to the tune of a certain Guns ‘n Roses song that we all loved. 89 is FINE!!!!
Julia and Jennifer on the float plane from Larsen Bay to Kodiak, AK. 8/5/09
EVERYTHING AND NOTHING
Lyrics by Julia Francis and Jennifer Beardsley
Copyright 2009 No Shrinking Violet
Shed a tear, I was missin’ you, my class of ’89
It took all my airline miles to get here
Some lost weight and some lost hair, but there’s one thing that we all share
20 years roll back with a shot and a beer
Where were you when you lost it?
Where were you when you tossed it?
All that’s changed is everything and nothing.
Too young for the bar, so we drank Luckies in our car
Cruising the road to Chiniak
She puked on your pants, before the teen center dance
Got the evil eye from Mr. Kubiak
Where were you when you lost it?
Where were you when you tossed it?
All that’s changed is everything and nothing.
He touched me out of bounds, late one night at the Rodeo Grounds
Straight up now tell me are you really gonna love me forever
He said let’s just be friends, thank God there was no Facebook then
I was a sucker for any guy in leather
Enough Bartles and Jaymes’ and you won’t care what their names is
Coastie says ‘Hey baby, you got a nice rack’
You got spew on your shoe, at the VFW
Tomorrow morning your boat leaves for Afognak
Everything and nothing….changes…
Everything and nothing….changes…
Scorps had a really cool truck, but did he ever get a single fuck
Larry Ledoux tellin me what do to, and I’m breaking own my own curfew
I just want to fit in, I’m waiting for my life to begin
Everybody’s cooler than me, I’m as morose as Morrisey
I want you to see me, I want you to know me
I want you to hold me, just hold me, please hold me…
As I look around the room, I see the story’s the same
We did what we had to do to make it
New friends may come and go, but only you and I know
Our special strength and how this island shaped it
Where were you when you lost it?
Where were you when you tossed it?
All that’s changed is everything and nothing.
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