“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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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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