Posts by Julia Schmeelk

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…

Thanks for helping us celebrate the NewHouse by downloading copies of Gordon’s Pride. They will continue to be free through Monday at Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Gordons-Pride-NewEarth-Book-1-ebook/dp/B076YDJD7S/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_pdt_img_top?ie=UTF8 There is a story about the pink cover. If you have noticed that the fonts and style do not match the others in the series, that is not a coincidence. I went…

Trying to decide where things go in the new house as we pack and label boxes is sort of funny. What do we want to do with our supply of Alaska boots? – Put them in the basement. What should we do with the survival and camping gear? – Put it in the basement? Where…

Are you familiar with that old expression that your eyes are bigger than your stomach? This is what happens when you overstuff yourself and feel it an hour later. You feel like you are too fat to move, like a beached whale must feel. The more you struggle to move the worse you feel, but…