When my thoughts are tangled and knotted by fear—What will he think of me? Why, why, WHY did I act that way? How will I face them again? What if what I tell her ruins her life?—the following things I tell myself. The telling, and the knowing, give me courage: No one cares about you. […]
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The winner of Dorcas Smucker’s latest book, Fragrant Whiffs of Joy, is Jessica E. Congratulations, Jessica! This drawing was done using the true random number generator at Random.org. For those of you who didn’t win, you can still order a copy. Contact Dorcas Smucker at 31148 Substation Drive, Harrisburg, OR 97446. Email address: dorcassmucker@gmail.com. Books are $12
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That’s me standing at the front in the picture above, reading The Arrowhead to the assembled adults at the Shell Lake Public Library. I also read them excerpts from Anything But Simple, and we had a Q and A afterward. I would post pictures from the Shell Lake Library Facebook page of me with my
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Several years ago—late summer 2013, according to old emails I pulled up—I visited the Willamette Valley and was invited to an Anabaptist writers’ gathering. I was awed when I heard the event was to be hosted at the home of author Dorcas Smucker, whose books Mom sold in our bookstore. She was a professional author, with a
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