Julia's Blog

When you build your own world, you get to define all these very important words for your own fictional reality, but in the real world, the one where my feet live, we all have our own idea of freedom. For many it is freedom from something. Freedom from ignorance, freedom from starvation, freedom from persecution,…

No idea how this could relate to my fictional world, but somehow it hit my funny bone just right. Last night on my evening commute, with the sun going down shining in my eyes, I tried to adjust the visor and it fell off in my hand. Yes the whole visor fell down, and it…

As an American, I have have lived in six different states, visited 40 others, and missed a few as we flew past or didn’t get a chance to stop. I have not yet ventured off North America, but I know many people who started somewhere else and came here for work, play, seeking something different,…

As humans, we all have an instinctive knowledge about how the right hat can change our lives. For a moment, think about the men you know and how they favor a particular hat. I know men who wear a special beany, or cap, fur hat, or cowboy hat. Women can be the same if they…

We were returning home after picking up my car from the mechanic, it was past the usual dinner hour. Since we live on a rural route, it was a dark and lonely road, we were the only cars and the roads were soaked after a few days of rain. My husband was in the lead…

My real life job is a school teacher, so on election days, school is closed. In a world where schools worry about shooters and violence you can’t have polls happening while students and teachers are present. That being said, I have the day off. What that means is I win. I could have waited to…