Posts by Julia Schmeelk

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

A Twitter friend of mine who writes a scary kind of fantasy with a facile use of language, also has a blog. I would encourage everyone to check out SusanRooke.net. She is an amazing writer with lots of interesting things to say, so I read her stuff whenever I get the chance. Today after a…