Posts by Julia Schmeelk

It is amazing how once you get past the worst hump, the rest falls into place. Tomorrow I move onto the tools and laundry. Things are sliding into boxes and bins. Sorting is getting easier. It was hot today, but opening windows really helped. They were doing the last cutting  and rolling of hay on…

For unknown reasons I find myself awake early, but I wanted to thank everyone for helping get the word out about the free give-away. It was awesome. Lots of new people downloaded Gordon’s Pride. I hope they enjoy the story, fall in love with Gordon, Hanna, Heron and Grabon and want to know what happens…

In my mythical world, humans destroyed the environment and for reasons that I do not elaborate on, instead of fixing the mistakes they made, they hike up prices on natural resources like water and harvest them at great risk and expense from other planets. I am not a prophet, I am not willing to believe…

I had a lot of fun coming up with posters and images to help with the promotion. I had to download some free apps and try them out in order to add text to images. Tell me what you think. The pics were all done by Athena of course, you can spot her stuff from…

“What’s in that box?” My heart practically stopped as I closed it up with tape. “Junk from my desk in Alaska.” I was a teacher, a writer, who knows what is in there. Notes from lesson planning, paid bills from the house, retirement extras, pamphlets. Paper is attracted to me and I collect containers to…

When packing, I always find the most interesting things. Now I am not referring to the shed skin of a snake, or the mouse evidence left in the closet, or the single sock with no apparent mate left in this world. No, I am referring to the shaved ice machine that had somehow jumped ship…

Because we have recently lived in small spaces, when we moved into this house, we decided to split the storage between my office and the spare room. That means those rooms are jammed with all types of miscellaneous items, holding twice or three times the contents of every other room. This time Shawn’s tools were…