Julie Moran Alterio
Julie Moran Alterio, her husband and baby girl — “Pumpkin" — share their Northern Westchester home with three iPods and more colorful plastic toys than seems necessary to entertain one tiny human. Since becoming a first-time mom to a preemie in 2005, Julie has been juggling work and parenting and has finally accepted that there is no way anyone could possibly find all of the Cheerios scattered around her house.
Julie, a senior business reporter, explores the intersection of technology, commerce and culture. Before she joined The Journal News in 1999, Julie was business editor at The Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Time in Connecticut. A graduate of SUNY at Buffalo, Julie studied English literature in between days and nights at the student magazine.
E-mail Julie Moran Alterio at jalterio@lohud.com
Entries written by Julie Moran Alterio
- July
- 22
Who knew that by making Pumpkin a delicious peanut butter and jelly sandwich, I’m not just feeding her a protein-packed lunch but helping the planet?
That’s the message of the PB&J Campaign, which exhorts the environmentally minded among us to pass up the chicken salad: “You recycle. You choose organic. You conserve energy. Now take at-home [...]
Posted by Julie Moran Alterio on July 22nd, 2008 | 2 Comments »
- July
- 22
What is up with these backpacks that are so heavy that kids are being weighed down like mountaineers? At the risk of sounding like someone who should be leaning on a walker and eating dinner at 4 p.m., I’d like to point out that when I was a kid, we didn’t even carry backpacks! Somehow [...]
Posted by Julie Moran Alterio on July 22nd, 2008 | Post a Comment »
- July
- 3
What is your family’s unique way of celebrating the Fourth of July? For us, it’s a special day in more ways than one. Three years ago tomorrow, we brought Pumpkin home from the hospital — nine weeks to the day after she was born. So for us, it’s not just our nation’s independence we’re celebrating, [...]
Posted by Julie Moran Alterio on July 3rd, 2008 | Post a Comment »
- July
- 2
Like most kids, Pumpkin is far from immune to the joys of ice cream. This has always been fine with me. She doesn’t drink enough milk to begin with, and we’ve always tried to find ways to get extra healthy calories in her slender body. But this year, she has discovered the pleasure of a [...]
Posted by Julie Moran Alterio on July 2nd, 2008 | 5 Comments »
- July
- 1
Sunday night, my husband and I spent about four hours at the emergency room of Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco to rule out appendicitis as the cause of the severe abdominal pains he had been experiencing. (He’s OK. Just sick.) We were there from about 9:45 p.m. until about 2 a.m., thankfully without the [...]
Posted by Julie Moran Alterio on July 1st, 2008 | Post a Comment »
- June
- 27
Here’s a milestone: Pumpkin just discovered the suffix. Now, instead of saying something is “big, big,” to add emphasis, she can now say that it’s bigg-er. Other things are long-er. She feels happi-er. It’s a neat feat to witness. And a bit of a “told you so” to a pediatrician who scoffed that a couple [...]
Posted by Julie Moran Alterio on June 27th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
- June
- 7
What if you can’t stand your child’s pediatrician?
I remember the moment my long-simmering (but still mild) dislike of my daughter’s pediatrician boiled over into actual antipathy. We were discussing Pumpkin’s milestones at her third birthday checkup when the doctor asked if she moved into a bed yet. I said no, and added that Pumpkin loves [...]
Posted by Julie Moran Alterio on June 7th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
- April
- 9
As the mom of a daughter, I just had to take a moment to share a wonderful and pithy article I read on how pop culture sometimes ignores the potential for female heroes. NPR’s Peter Sagal, the host of the popular program “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” explains how in a great commentary. He went [...]
Posted by Julie Moran Alterio on April 9th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
- March
- 31
Readers of this blog won’t be seeing my posts for a few weeks because I’m taking some family leave to care for my mom, who is recovering from surgery. We hope all will go very well — but this experience puts me for the first time in what’s being called the “sandwich generation.” There’s even [...]
Posted by Julie Moran Alterio on March 31st, 2008 | 4 Comments »
- March
- 31
This is a belated post about Easter. We’ve had a busy week in our family. My mom went into the hospital in New York on Wednesday for surgery and I’ve been down there every day. But I wanted to put my thoughts out here on Easter and our traditions because this year they were tested [...]
Posted by Julie Moran Alterio on March 31st, 2008 | Post a Comment »
- March
- 21
Imagine taking a picture of each person in your family once a year in the same pose. Now imagine doing it for 25 years. That’s what Diego Goldberg of Buenos Aires, Argentina, did in an amazing photo essay. It starts in 1976 with Diego and his wife, Susy. In 1977, Nicolás comes into the world. [...]
Posted by Julie Moran Alterio on March 21st, 2008 | Post a Comment »
- March
- 19
Some days it’s easy. Other days, well …
Posted by Julie Moran Alterio on March 19th, 2008 | Post a Comment »
- March
- 18
So, the eighth-grader who was punished with pretty harsh measures for buying a bag of Skittles from a classmate against school rules has been cleared of wrongdoing. Unfortunately, the reprieve didn’t come soon enough to allow him to attend an honor society dinner he missed as part of the punishment. If you didn’t see the [...]
Posted by Julie Moran Alterio on March 18th, 2008 | Post a Comment »
- March
- 18
So, last week I bought Pumpkin her first outfit of the spring: A darling sunflower dress with cute matching shoes and sweater at babyGap. My mom bought her the matching hat and purse. The price of all this cuteness? Let’s just say more than $100. Ah, but it’s her Easter outfit, you see. That’s how [...]
Posted by Julie Moran Alterio on March 18th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
- March
- 17
I’m doing a report in time for Earth Day on the cost of going “Green.” I’m hoping to explore the choices consumers make to spend more money on environmentally friendly products even though there are cheaper conventional alternatives. This can include everything from organic milk to CFLs to chlorine-free bathtub cleaner to the Toyota Prius.
As [...]
Posted by Julie Moran Alterio on March 17th, 2008 | Post a Comment »