It’s been almost two months since I shared an update, and I feel like a lot has happened! We took a trip to Iowa to see our dear Grandma Dorothy: Every time we see her, it seems she is a little further into that aging place where one grows ever more detached from life and […]
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“But how did Mike Mulligan go to the bathroom?” asks Ramona Quimby in one of my favorite childhood books. (If you know the story of Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, you understand why she asked.) It’s exactly what I wondered when reading God’s instructions in Leviticus for his priests’ consecration. “At the entrance of the
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Once upon a time I had a little brother, and he loved stories, sat in odd curled-up positions, wrote poetry, told random jokes, was generally cheerful and thoughtful of others, married an artist, built himself and his beloved a sweet little cabin in the woods, decided to get his MA in marriage and family counseling…and
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The first few couple months of the year were unusually cold ones here in Garrett County. Swallow Falls froze over to a greater degree than I’ve ever seen. That’s us behind the falls in the feature photo above and me peeking out from a hole in the center in the photo below. Another very cool
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As a preteen, I picked up a pen pal from Ghana. She told me how she was trying to save money for college. “We don’t go to college unless we have a purpose for it,” I remember writing back. We being conservative Mennonites and purpose being a vital occupation like a doctor or a nurse.
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