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Nov.13.2010
Is your blog consistently overflowing with fresh, enticing content that attracts readers like how-to-get-your-book-published books attract unpublished authors?
Or, have you been staring at the blank white page on your screen so long you’re suffering from white out? If you answered yes to the first...
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Nov.10.2010
L5. S1.
No, I didn’t give up armadillo-fightin’ and my momentarily-brilliant-writer lifestyle to become a Bingo caller. If you thought I did, pat yourself on your healthy back. Sunday morning my L5-S1 disc broke out and rolled into my spinal canal to see if anything had changed since he visited...
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Nov.05.2010
Animated is code for happily inebriated in my family. My husband, RJ changed the meaning when he described me as animated on our second date. Our first date was a blind date. (Maybe that explains it.) Animated is three to five drinks away from drunk. In our family, drunk is code for back to Al-...
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Nov.02.2010
My blog for today is ruined. And it’s your fault.
I was more excited than all the comparisons I'm too distraught to think of to read today’s blogs. I fully anticipated half the blogs to contain political discourses, I mean rants disguised as brilliant viewpoints, about witches, warlocks, tea...
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Oct.29.2010
My favorite meteorologist, Ron Hearst of KY3 News in Springfield, looked me in the eyes on the 5 o’clock news, and before I could cover my ears with my gardening gloves, said, “KILLING FROST.” I swore back. “Shit! How about a little notice buddy?” “Who are you talking to?” RJ yelled from upstairs...
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Oct.26.2010
“Did you get your office chair at Staples,” Ruth asked while we spread mulch at the Rock and Roll Garden on Monday.
“Yes, how did you know?” I responded as I prepared to carefully relocate a wild violet to the compost pile. “I saw the stitching pattern from the faux leather when you bent over and...
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Oct.22.2010
I was in seventh grade when Steve Bratlin was quarterback and Head Boy at Grant Junior High in Littleton, Colorado. Head Boy was Grant’s equivalent of 9th grade valedictorian. The teachers loved Steve, and he wasn’t shy about sharing his elevated status and intellectual prowess. There was a picture...
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Oct.20.2010
I was going to blog about being a Blogaholic. Not for myself (I don’t have a problem) but as a courtesy to the rest of you. I mean as a public service kindness to others who might not recognize the warning signs.
Being the studious researcher I am (I am), I searched Red Room to see if other members...
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Oct.18.2010
I’m reviewing my decision to email forty-plus family members last week. The email was a proclamation—My blog, “Red Room Stirs Competitive Spirit” was picked as the Blog of the Day.
You would’ve done the same, right?
No?
Fine. Now I have to explain myself.
Damn it, I was proud. But I was virtuous....
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Oct.14.2010
I tried to pick my favorite garden for two days. Butchart Gardens in British Columbia? Missouri Botanical Garden? David C. Lam Asian Garden at the University of British Columbia or Abkhazi Garden in Victoria? What about my own garden…
I walked and walked through memories of my beloved gardens....
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Oct.13.2010
There’s no crying in writing, even if you’re injured.
Injured? Who’s injured? Not me. I didn’t trip as I rushed to my laptop Tuesday morning. I did not—absolutely did not—tweak my L5-S1 herniated disk as I landed sideways in my chair. Why would I? I had no desire to scan my inbox for a personal...
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Oct.09.2010
The number one cause of disagreements during our family get-togethers isn’t forgetting to buy a new girlfriend a Christmas present or rehashing an old argument over who got Aunt Kate’s teapot. Competition is the number one cause because games are an integral part of our family history. My great-...
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Oct.07.2010
“What do you think he’s looking at?” Maria asked. She bent down and put her head beside Mr. Dewar’s to see things from his perspective. “Stand up, Maria.”
Mrs. Nichols took the fresh sheets from the empty visitor’s chair and handed them to Maria. “I’ve been working in the Alzheimer’s Unit for...
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Oct.04.2010
How long does it take to write the perfect query? Correction: How long can it take to write the perfect query?
I’ve been writing query letters since the 1980’s—longer than most of the agents I’m querying have been writing in cursive. I’ve been revising the query for my current book for three...
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Oct.01.2010
The following excerpt is from a letter The English Society at Missouri State University composed to authors’ Sarah Ockler and Laurie Anderson. I hope the letter, published today at the News-Leader.com, increases the clamor to axe Wesley Scroggins. He shouldn’t mind—he’ll have ample time to screen...
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In this strong and vulnerable collection of poetry, the poet spins out a thoughtful imagery of innocence and culpability, for (and of) "the users and the abused". Jules Jacob inhabits a dichotomous world, and with delicate magnetism, draws us into it, in each poem. ”
—The Glass Sponge Endorsement— Dr. Harrison Solow, Pushcart Prize winning writer, author and university professor
About Jules
Julie "Jules" Jacob attended the University of New Hampshire, Colorado State University and The Horticultural Therapy Institute. She’s a Horticultural Therapist, and child advocate for CASA of Southwest Missouri. Jules lives in the Mark Twain National Forest...
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Causes Jules Jacob Supports
Missouri Court Appointed Special Advocates Association, American Horticultural Therapy Association, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, National Jewish...
Jules’s Favorite Books
The Fountainhead, The Lost Get-Back Boogie, Cutting for Stone, The Botany of Desire, Handbook of Poisonous and Injurious Plants, A Stained White Radiance and...
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