What does this picture make you think of? It makes me remember one of my favorite children’s books, the one that has the repeated line, “No more monkeys jumping on the bed!” Anyone else love that story? This picture also makes a tiny three letter word run through my mind. Joy. Joy is my middle […]
I met Liang and Sami unexpectedly while selling books at the Eau Claire Downtown Farmer’s Market. Liang, a photographer, flew his drone over the market to take pictures. When he flew over my table, the wind from his drone inadvertently knocked over all the family photos I had carefully set up for display on my
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“You surely aren’t a hypocrite!” someone commented to me recently, after reading my book. Thank you. “It must have taken a lot of courage to write this,” someone else said. Yes. It did. “Anything But Simple is, I think the most honest, open look at ‘the Mennonite life’ I’ve ever read.” writes Jeanette Dexter in
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Blogger Bethany Eicher has recently posted a review of Anything But Simple. “To grow up Mennonite,” she writes, “is to be set apart from the world at large for life. The best way I can think of to describe this odd phenomenon is to imagine being born Russian and living in America.” Go to her
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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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