Posts by Julia Schmeelk
Spring Mud
If you don’t have a dog, a garden, or children in the USA you might not know that we are experiencing the miracle of spring. Plants are poking their little green noses out of the dirt, pushing aside rocks and old rotting grass clippings and leaves. Rain spatters down, occasionally pouring out of the sky,…
Read MoreHired over Text
For weeks I have been putting my resume out there, it might even have been for months. Who wants to keep track of frustration; but yesterday after I spent a lovely afternoon with my folks, I had a message. I texted back. I was instructed to find google hangout instant messenger. Yeah, it did not…
Read MoreEquality
Like freedom, equality is a word with a meaning that is dependent on the context. People consider themselves free in all kinds of circumstances that I would find intolerable. That doesn’t make them wrong or me incorrect, just different points of view. Equality doesn’t mean that everyone is the same, because look around. We are…
Read MoreJobs
I am extraordinarily lucky to have the time to look around at the possibilities, but I want to tell you about a very interesting opportunity that I ran into. I was looking for job possibilities on line, using my tablet, as I often do. I came across a teach from home advertisement and I followed…
Read MoreThe Heartsinger
My dad was recently going through and finding small errors, things to address for the 2nd edition and I started thumbing through the book and it sucked me in. Now I know that story, not only did I write it and re-write it and fiddle with it and rework it, but then eventually I revised…
Read MoreCyber Security
I know it’s making excuses, but seriously I forget to check every day! Since the recent attacks on the website and the heightened security, I have to go through each comment and decide if I can approve it or not. Since I let the last bad actor in and they did a couple of hundred…
Read MoreSecond Editions
I am beginning to compile corrections on the first 6 books for second editions. This can take a long time, but I might as well get started. If you have found a mistake, or what you think is a mistake in one of the books, please let me know. Here is what I need. Title…
Read MoreWeather Shift
The last few days have been warm enough to wear a sweatshirt without a coat. At night it rains, waking up plants, melting the hidden ice and the last of the piles of compacted, dirt encrusted snow. My yard is taking shape. We gathered all the newly downed limbs, cut up sticks and raked up…
Read MoreCandied Lemon 🍋
I’m not sure why, maybe to celebrate spring, or because I had gotten a bag of lemons on sale, but I got up one morning this week and decided to candy some lemon slices. It’s an easy process, put a little water in a nonstick pan, add sugar, enough so it cannot desolve, add the…
Read MorePolarized World
Like so many people today, I spend a good amount of time trying to get a handle on what is happening in our polarized country. It seems that each party, each group, is attempting to foster hate and distrust of the others and the result… well the crazy people come out with violence to settle…
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