Jeff and Juliet were friends in high school, got into standard teen shenanigans in the suburbs of Ladue and Creve Coeur, Missouri, and remained friends through college and post-graduate days. Their friendship, however, hit its adult stride after Juliet married a man whose politics Jeff pronounced “awesome,” and they realized they had more in common than they thought–or perhaps had grown into people who shared much. They once took an epic trip together to Vietnam.
They have both kept travel blogs of sorts. Jeff wrote one while he was in Bogota, and one Juliet began during a family sabbatical in Thailand evolved after her return into a vehicle for occasional writing on other, disparate subjects. Jeff proposed The Splits as a way to keep himself motivated to write, but, for Juliet, it’s a way to structure that occasional writing, and to do it collaboratively. This joint venture is the writing equivalent of parallel play in toddlers, in which they separately write our own takes on the same subject. And, like toddlers, ideally they will also amuse their observers.
Juliet is sufficiently committed to monogamy; Jeff is not. However, they promise to stay faithful to our blog, come rain, shine, sleet, hail, or outside political circumstances.
The Splits 