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So What Am I Reading?

Lots! Whenever I finish writing a book I slip into hardcore reading mode.

I’m in a mostly non-fiction early Christian era mood.

On my Kindle:

Just finished– Medieval Underpants and Other Blunders: A Writer’s & Editor’s Guide to Keeping Historical Fiction Free of Common Anachronisms, Errors and Myths, by Susanne Alleyn. Loved it!

Those Incredible Christians, by Hugh Schonfield.

An Old Hebrew Text of St. Matthew’s Gospel: Translated, with an Introduction, Notes and Appendices, Hugh Schonfield.

The Ar...

Oatmeal In a Jar. It’s the Latest Craze!

First off, let’s get one thing straight. Unless you are making three servings at once, it don’t look like this:

Stylish Oatmeal in a Jar.

But… It does taste dang good and a single serving is filling and healthy.

So here’s what you do… and I’ve got it down, ladies and germs. I will give you the basics, and then I’ll tell you how I take my oatmeal.

Stick with the basics. Add your own frills.

The Basics.

My basics for a single serving:

1/4 cup rolled oats

1/4 cup milk or cream

1/3 cup plain Greek yogurt

1...

A Quick Note.

I’m finished with edits. Done with my blurb. Working on my cover. Taking my own photographs this time and working with my own personal cover artist. He created the cover for One Foot In Heaven, Journey of a Hospice Nurse. Love that cover, by the way.

One of my short stories – non-romance – has been accepted into an anthology. The anthology should be released this summer. Mum’s the word for the time being. This is as much information as I can divulge. I’m happy about it though.

The knee sorta su...

Amazing.

I read this story, From Mullet to Math Genius After a Concussion, (more later)and immediately flashed on a similar story my husband tells:

Back in the early 90′s I was on hospital call and a patient came to my servicein transfer from the neurosurgical unit in Sacramento. He had been shoved out of a moving vehicle and suffered a skull fracture and alife threateningbrain injury. He was in a coma for several days.

By the time he was turned over to me he was no longer comatose but still delirious....

Have a wonderful Easter.

Can somebody please teach me how to make these???

I’m busy editing, working on a Passover Seder, i.e., the Last Supper, yeah takes me three days… Well, didn’t it take Jesus three days?

My thoughts and prayers are with all my wonderful family and friends who face personal and professional challenges this season.

Oh, Tom– go get this book for the grandkids. This is one of my kids’ all time favorite books: Rechenka’s Eggs, by Patricia Polacco.

One of our favorite stories!

Much love, Julia

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Julia gets personal.

April is a big month. It’s my favorite month, mostly because April, from my perspective, is spring. Birdsong, wildflowers, hunting morels, baby bunnies…

Hunting morels in Iowa.

Back in Iowa April meant plowing and planting. When that rich black dirt in the Midwest, particularly in Iowa, is tilled up it smells good enough to eat. Seriously.

I miss it. I miss the fireflies, the raspberries, the elderberries, the Dutchman’s Breeches, the black walnuts, the black squirrels, the massive thunderstorms...

I wept…

…when I finished the first draft of my new work in progress. Today.

Coming Soon.

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Joffrey Baratheon- Or Buh-Bye Game of Thrones.

Spoiler Alert–

The king is dead. Long live the king.

Joffrey Baratheon

Yes, I read all the books way back when, back when each was released. The two most not-so-recent installments bored me beyond tears.

Regardless– Joffrey Baratheon’s recent demise might possibly be the least satisfactory death in literary/film history. Evil should suffer, if only to give satisfaction to the reader/viewer.

Frankly, if anyone was deserving of the Blood Eagle, (see Vikings), it wasn’t Jarl Borg, it was Joffrey Bara...

Finding Noodleman. The Real Story Behind My SFR, Captured.

Mari never expects to find herself caged in a cargo hold on a spaceship. She quickly learns from her captors she’s headed to the meat market. When they try to return her to hypersleep, she resists. After allowing her to stay awake, Mari realizes her survival depends on connecting with the male in charge, Ekkatt. She must make him see her as a sentient being or she will end up as dinner. Ekkatt has never spoken to any human. They are valued for one thing, the money they bring at auction. The A...

Can’t Win for Losin’… Poor Jake. Poor Jake’s Mom.

So I’ve been hiking with the good boy, right?

Because the hubs is in my comfy bed with ice on his knee, right?

I hike at, what is for me, a snail’s pace. Uphill is hard. Downhill is a bitch.

Jake has been amazing. He gets that I can’t go fast. He keeps a steady pace, and if he gets ahead of me on a downhill slope, he stops, sits and stays. Waits for me to catch up.

He’s also been helping me out by wearing a backpack so he can carry stuff upstairs to the hubster. He’s getting really good at it. Sa...