Hot Pot
In Guilin on Monday, we tried hot pot. It was delicious. Tuesday in Chengdu, we also had hot pot, and it was even spicier. A Sichuan specialty whose flavor was still more delicious. Maybe China will teach me to eat hot.
In Two Days, China
Two days to finish packing and all the things that need doing before Chad and I leave for China. The image above, which came from askideas.com, is of the terra cotta warriors in Xian. I am looking forward to seeing those. I am also very much looking forward to reconnecting with Liang and Sami in
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The Most Courageous Woman
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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Young Faces
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
The Narrative Mind of God
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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