Julia’s Latest Posts
Fat Thinking
I am a round person, have been my whole life and while I am not ashamed of a body that works and holds a good bit of power, I do wish I was smaller. Lately I have been working with a team of people who are much smaller than I am and I observed something…
Read MoreTeaching Moments
My regular job is teaching. I work through an agency and have the thrill and adventure of watching high school students grow, stretch, and become contributing members of society. This year I get to teach chemistry along with three different levels of math and a few other incidentals. But the story I am going to…
Read MoreGenerational Changes
If we start with this world, one can make assumptions about people born in the thirties, the fifties, the seventies, and the nineties. They are different than those born after the computer revolution, and those born now. Current children will be that much more different than the generations before them and so it will continue…
Read MoreColorful World
I was lucky enough to meet my fantastic NewEarth Artist while I was living in Missouri. She is an amazing woman with a talent for translating words into visuals. I described the scenes from the stories and she provided the images, bringing details to life, including an abundance of color. The natural world here on…
Read MoreRefugees
What does it take to motivate someone to pack up and leave their home, their culture, their food, religion, community, family, and language? People do it all over the world looking to escape the intolerable or find hope when it is lost. My Grandfather came to this country at 16 with an address in his…
Read MoreDays Off
For Presidents Day I was home and it was a thrilling day spent with family and friends. I did something we rarely have a chance to do, I invited some friends over, cooked a meal and exchanged stories. So much of my time is devoted to work, to writing, to family, to house and home…
Read MoreExpressions
I have been enjoying reading in someone else’s world lately, looking at their creation, falling into their story, examining their characters. What a joy it is to get lost in the twists and turns, be surprised by the curves and bends that the characters take. I love good characters, passionately hate the bad ones, fall…
Read MoreDystopian Stories
It seems that the world is filled with dystopian stories, those tales that highlight the bad, the dangerous, the mysterious ideas that hold civilization together making what is corrupt seem appealing, even normalized. Lots of people love those stories because they can be great fun and leave them feeling good about our society, which may…
Read MoreHappy ❤️Day!
Lots of love and respect goes out to everyone celebrating Valentine’s Day. It doesn’t matter if you recognize a partner of 50+ years, a new lover, a child, parent, friend, classmates, siblings, or neighbor. A day of recognizing our relationships and spreading joy and chocolate is never wasted. What started as a gimmick to sell…
Read MoreFunny 2
I am old. I freely admit I went through college, my under graduate degree, using an electric typewriter, or paying someone to type my papers after I wrote them by hand. I grew up without a dishwasher or microwave. So I lack some of the connectedness that some younger people have. Technology whirls around me…
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