The Mom. The Myth. The Legend.
Julie Ann Cook, is a happily married, joyfully outnumbered mom of boys. When she’s not busy being an Uber Mom, feeding someone, or calming cowlicks, Julie writes icons and sometimes blogs. She is an award-winning author, artist, and photographer.
Having lost three sons to during the second trimester, and three more babies in the early weeks of pregnancy, Julie is an advocate of pregnancy and infant loss awareness and outreach, often writing on the subject.
A graduate of Winthrop University, Julie has had photography and art included in Kakalak and moonShine review, and her writing has appeared in various publications, including the previously mentioned, Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, Ever Eden Poetry Journal, Pinesong, Iodine Poetry Journal, MaMaZina.com, and The Wolf. She served as the Art Director for the international art and lit journal, Shakespeare’s Monkey Revue (now retired).
Julie is the author of three poetry collections: Lemonade & Rumors (THRIFT Press, 2006) and Love Like Weeds (Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2013), and Theology of Four-Letter Words & Other Well-Intentioned Heresies (Lifely Designs Publishing, 2022). Click the respective titles to purchase your copies, and while you wait for your snail mail, check out her sporadically updated blog, Digging Cheese Out of Carpet.
About the Blog: Digging Cheese Out of Carpet
Digging Cheese Out of Carpet gets its title from a line from one of Julie’s poems, “Where Between,” which won an honorable mention in the 2006 Kakalak Anthology of Carolina Poets. It refers to the day-to-day obstacles and occasional messiness of motherhood.
Digging Cheese Out of Carpet comes from a long line of serial writing attempts, both online and off. Probably the sixth blog Julie ever had, DCOOC began as a new year’s resolution in 2008. Older posts from previous blogs were later imported, and eventually DCOOC moved from its birthplace on blogger to here.