A snake sunning itself. Rocks worn smooth by water… and shaped into ripples. The way of a man with a maid. (Especially interesting when the man happens to be my little brother.) My mom snapping photos… …and the hunched, arm-swinging posture of rock walkers. Last but not least, I enjoyed the interesting sight of a […]
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This morning I woke up to one of my favorite sounds in the world: little girl voices. Well, mostly little girl voices. MacKenzie is ten now, and not so very little. Madison is seven and full of questions like: “Why are you laying the wrong way in the bed?” (Because I woke up awhile ago
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I am happy to inform you, dear readers, that Gina Martin is hosting a giveaway of Anything But Simple on her blog, Home Joys. Head over to Home Joys sometime this week to read her review and to enter your name in the drawing for an autographed copy of your own. And stay tuned! Over
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One month ago, I wrote about buying 988 copies of Anything But Simple to resell. “Ask me a year from now how that’s going for me,” I said. Four weeks later, I have a report. So far, I have sold or given away 428 of those books, which leaves me a remainder of 560. I
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I don’t know what it is in me that drives me to want to be heard. Once upon a time, a friend told me that she had detected a repressed desire of mine—repressed because I am a woman, and a Mennonite. You practically shout in your public and private writings, ‘I want to preach!’ she
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