Justine Frederiksen: That was Cool

Sometimes the smallest moments have the biggest impact, so I like to write about the tiny things that felt huge to me. Also, I love sharing my grandmother's journals, tiny books full of a life that was of huge importance to me.

Monday, August 18, 2025

Losing a friend is never easy. But my last moments with Bootsy were the best I could hope for.

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Losing a loved one is never easy. But if you have to say goodbye, the last moments I spent with our cat Bootsy were just about the best anyo...
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Sunday, August 10, 2025

Five cool trolls, one super cool friend: How Patty made my "impossible" dream possible.

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I hadn’t seen Patty in 10 years. But when I told her I wanted to come visit and try to see all five of the Thomas Dambo troll sculptures nea...
Thursday, July 31, 2025

Movies I saw in July: Megan 2.0, Jurassic World Rebirth

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Theater poster for Megan 2.0. I didn’t see a lot of movies in July, but the two I did catch last month continued a trend I am quite enjoying...
Wednesday, July 23, 2025

What’s on Valencia Peak? The best picnic table in California!

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The best seat in California? You don’t need reservations to sit at what I think is the best table in California, because it is a humble picn...
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Movies I saw in June: Ballerina, The Phoenician Scheme & Thelma

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The movies I saw in June featured lots of cool women, including an assassin avenging her father’s death and a nun whose father keeps escapin...
Saturday, June 28, 2025

My Grandmother's Journals: June, 2000. Grandma has heart surgery the day before my move to Seattle!

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My husband and my grandmother in 2012. So much happened to my grandmother and me in June of 2000. While she was in the hospital discovering ...
Monday, June 2, 2025

Movies I saw in May: Mission Impossible 8, Columbus, Extraction & Extraction 2

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Movie poster for MI:8. The movies I saw in May included only one seen in the theater, one seen on DVD, and two seen on a streaming service: ...
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Justine Frederiksen
Sometimes the little things mean the most. I like to write about all the small-but-cool things that have changed me and my life.
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