Posts by Julia Schmeelk
Thankful ❤️🤔
Like lots of people I keep adding to my thankful list. When I was teaching we made a paper chain, each link something someone was thankful for, and we hung it on our ceiling in the classroom. It stayed all year reminding students to look up and remember what they were thankful for instead of…
Read MoreBreakfast
I don’t know how it works in your house, but in mine the food gets better the closer you are to a major feasting holiday. For instance last night I made chicken Alfredo, with bread. This morning we had cheese blintzes. My cooking engines are revving up and will explode with turkey, ham, cheddar meatballs,…
Read MoreLars
When readers first meet Lars he is a visitor while the clan is doing a fast harvest ahead of a swarm of varasious bugs. He helps organize other visitors to gather berries and onion, mushrooms, and tubers as food sources that the humans use and the dragons of Grabon’s clan eat as well. All that…
Read MoreQuesting
Not every journey in my books is a quest, and not every quest is depicted as a journey. A reader asked me if I was deliberately writing quests into my stories, or if it happened by accident. I managed to swallow my tea and not spew it over my iPad. Don’t get me wrong it…
Read MoreUnpacking
My office is finally coming together and there are only two or maybe five boxes and bins remaining. My computer is functional, but the printer is not yet established on our personal network. I am password challenged and seem to have a problem with it. Yesterday, staring at those boxes, I had the crazy impulse…
Read MoreBooks as Gifts
Giving a book as a gift can be tricky, depending on how prolific and how picky your gift recipient may be. For instance, my brother reads continuously. If a new book came out in a series he was reading or from a favored author, I might be tempted to buy him a copy and give…
Read MoreThanksgiving
Like many people around this time of year, I have started the self-reflection on the many things to be grateful and thankful for. The top of the list of course is family. My husband, parents, brother and their children. I am always thankful for the many kids we had the opportunity to see grow to…
Read MoreShared Dreams
While Gordon and Hanna are fostering the mating bond between them, Gordon is anticipating each milestone. Shared emotions, shared sensations, and among the last in their case, shared dreams. When it doesn’t happen on schedule, Gordon is concerned and speaks to Heron. His fear is that something is wrong. Heron basically tells him to be…
Read MorePlay
My wonderful and talented niece was in a musical this evening. Naturally, as many of us who could- went and admired her growing and amazing talents in so many theater areas. She sings, dances, taps, speaks, acts, and adds so much to the production that it is astonishing. I would brag on her if she…
Read MoreSnow
We got a bit of the white fluffy stuff yesterday and I went looking for our bent, light weight shovel and it is nowhere to be found. Moving makes locating anything and everything a challenge. Having a heart condition and using a heavy shovel is probably not smart, but that was all I could find.…
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