I met Sheryl Friesen at the CLP Writers and Artists Conference–a Russian Mennonite girl from Belize visiting the U.S. for the first time. Her comments intrigued me. “The buildings are so big,” she said. “They’re like villages in themselves.” Today I am heading off to Ontario for a summer adventure of my own, and I’ve […]
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The story starts in 1981 when Grandpa and Grandma picked up the Xiong family—Hmong refugees newly arrived in America with a passel of skinny, dark-eyed children—at the Eau Claire airport. Well, actually the story starts before that, during the years of the Vietnam War, when the Hmong people living in the mountains of Laos were
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When Bethany Hayes of Capacity Corner was diagnosed with MS, her life dramatically changed. Today she shares some precious lessons she’s learned: Multiple Sclerosis is often called “the invisible disease. “ Still, when I first diagnosed, I felt like a giant sign hung around my neck that read: I HAVE MS. I think I felt this way
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How we used to do it: My mom always bought our bread when I was young, usually white (the kind that has all the nutrients bleached out), the cheapest in the aisle. I felt sorry for the children who came to school with homemade bread sandwiches. Boughten bread, as we called it, was so much
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Or rather, don’t. Sliced and lying on a paper plate waiting to be deep fat fried, a pale squishy tan color with red dots here and there where the blood vessels were, I find them decidedly unappetizing. Jeffrey brought a couple of them home from North Star Bison on Sunday and sliced them up, grimacing.
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