Jacqueline Druga's Blog

First, let mestart by saying that I didn’t get scammed. They tried, but since this is one Ihaven’t heard of I thought I would share. Especially for authors out there thatmay not work in film as I do.  I did someresearch and found out this was happening more so two years ago, but now it’sback.

It started withan email.

An email came to theaccount I use for my amazon KDP, not my public email. It was from some directorinterested in talking to me about movie rights to one of my books. I loo...

 Nothing says Thanksgiving morethan holiday visits with family and friendly sibling competition, especiallywhen they don’t know they are competing.

This year 75% of my kids heldtheir own Thanksgiving Dinners. Three out of four in case you don’t know howmany offspring I have. The lone non-cooker, was happy just to not cook.  I decided that during the course of myholiday I would go to every child’s home and have their dinner. It was the morningof that I created a score sheet. Why not? It wo...

Undoubtedly, you have heard of an armchair quarterback. I have now invented a new one, armchair, MasterChef contestant.

Like millions of others, maybe not that high, I became obsessed via binge watching the television show MasterChef. I had heard of it, but never watched it. After watching a TV show called Pressure Cooker, I found my love of cooking shows and movies and naturally gravitated to Masterchef. where have I been the last 14 years or so. Watching it, I hated Joe the judge and I loved J...

It’s all about the bacon. You would think. In an unpopular opinion, probably even offensive to people, I’m not overly crazy about bacon. I think it goes back to my youth when we were “lucky” to get two pieces of bacon and it was hard to tell upon looking if it was even cooked. My parents loved their bacon fatty and limp. Yeah. Um no. But I do enjoy a bacon sandwich or a piece on a burger.

Which brings me to my hatred of cooking bacon. The grease, sizzle and snap of oil that burns your skin when ...

I heard it said that negative feedback is better than no feedback, or you need to hear the negative to fix the mistakes. While that is true, for the purpose of this blog, there are two types of negative feedback. Critical and harsh. You can tell someone they suck without using the word suck.

This cherry pie sucked!

This cherry didn’t do it for me.

Both tell the baker he didn’t do a good job on the pie, but while one can make the baker reexamine his recipe, the other can inadvertently make that b...

 On the eve of his book’s release, my preorder is in and I can wait to dive into Harry’s words.

I am obsessed with the Harry-Meagan story. I have at times used their first names as if talking  about old friends.

Actually, my obsession began with the royals the day Diana married Charles. I was doing my Saturday volunteer duty (candy striper back in the day) at the hospital with Sister Mary Louisa. A very tiny, old, petite, scary nun and as we were bagging surgical supplies she went off on a tange...

 

I think this may be the longest I have gone without blogging, and I think I need to get back into it. Every year, I say the same thing. Who knows, maybe this will be the year.

 

I thought about blogging again because I wanted to do a food blog. Since living on my own, I find myself cooking more because, well, I am making what I want to eat not what everyone else likes to eat. My daughter calls them spinster dinners, but technically AM I spinster if I have been married a bunch.

 

This year I face ...

It doesn’t register, nor does it ever seem important the background of the person deciding your fate when you step into a court of law. My ignorance of the process has always led me to think that judges are highly qualified and can objectively look at a case based on their experience as an attorney.

Magistrates I always looked at them as the street smart judges. Not always attorneys, but have the smarts to make quick and sometimes compassionate decisions.

It wasn’t until I started looking into t...

Every author knows Bookbub as the Master of Advertising. If you are picked for a feature you’re all but assured of a great sales day and residual bumps. (Most of the time) Heck, I remember when they started and I was one of the first dozen or so authors to get a feature. But note, that didn’t give me any special privileges. I still get rejected by them.

Recently I was able to try the latest feature, ‘New Releases for Less’. Googling this didn’t breed many results. I only read people stating they...

Whether you call it a sub, hero, hoagie… it all means the same. A delicious sandwich on a long bun filled with meats, cheese, veggies …. Sometimes hot, sometimes cold.

I am a food person, I take pictures of food. I’m weird like that.

I decided since I love Italian Hoagies to embark on a test of who makes the best and who are my favorites.

Now I excluded the local legends like Triangle Bar and Primanti Brothers (Over rated) and I picked the subs I felt were my favorite and took nicely dissected p...