The following blog post was originally published in my column in Mennonite World Review. Photo above is by Topich on Unsplash. I met her at the Mall of America in Minneapolis, two and a half hours from my home in rural Rusk County, Wisconsin. She was tall and dark and beautiful. She wore a bandana that covered […]
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I liked looking at the young faces best, when I gave my talk at the University of Wisconsin in Barron. Old faces are nice, I suppose, but they are standard, decided, set in their habits like fish swimming back and forth, back and forth, in a tank. Young faces are fluid, like the river. They
My talk at the university, titled “The Story of a Mennonite” went well. I had never spoken at a university before and was very nervous. Actually I was more nervous because my former creative writing professor would be there, and I wrote about him in my book and never mentioned to him that I was
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I will be giving a talk at the University of Wisconsin-Barron this Thursday, February 22nd at noon. The talk is titled “The Story of a Mennonite” and is described as follows: Join Lucinda Miller as she reflects on her own peculiar Mennonite life and the stories and complexities that make it real. Learn the histories
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My Toyota Yaris came with three keys when I bought it. Unfortunately, after I had owned it a couple of years, only one key remained. The others slid down behind the couch cushions into the innards of the couch, or beneath seven-year dirt under the refrigerator, or under a flipped-up corner of linoleum in the
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