Posts by Julia Schmeelk
Happy Thanksgiving
From our house to yours, have a wonderful Thanksgiving! Our turkey is in the oven at my parents, the ham is in the oven at our house. I have cut up veggies, made stuffing, and we are currently working on the 🥦 rice casserole. Thanksgiving this year is definitely a family effort with almost everyone…
Read MoreFeasting Days
Hanna usually takes the lead on coordinating food for the clan, but now that Pia, Grabon’s Mate, is settled and comfortable, she has been adding her own ideas. Feasting is a huge part of a clan gathering. It is big enough that new couples are suddenly faced with the responsibility of bringing a dish, a…
Read MoreInterview with AEM
A fellow writer and blogger is doing writer interviews and I signed up and landed the day after Thanksgiving. So if you are interested, we will post on Facebook and Twitter. It should be interesting… she had lots of questions!
Read MoreThanksgiving Tradition
I am always amazed at how holidays manage to come together and blossom into something memorable. My wonderful husband, sister-in-law, younger brother, and fabulous niece are all cooking and adding to the feast. I am sure everyone will help set the table, get the food out, and somehow we will all sit down at one…
Read MoreMy office
Okay, my printer is still languishing on the table and I have a few boxes displaced, but mostly I am functional, which is amazing. I have located my books, my special shelf, added lighting, cleaned window ledges and began decorating the walls and shelves. After the Thanksgiving weekend I will be working in my office…
Read MoreThankful ❤️🤔
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…
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