At least that’s how I felt at the time, and typed madly into my laptop a little over two weeks ago: That’s the funnest, funnest thing I ever did. It was 12:30 a.m. in Deer Lake, and Jonny and Dora and Janet and I had just returned from a fishing trip. We’d boated a long […]
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I recently wrote several articles for Daughters of Promise magazine, to add to my earlier Women in the Trenches series. This article features Lisl Lattin, a mother and wife in Chiang Mi, Thailand. “My journey to Thailand started mostly with Dru,” Lisl Lattin told me when I asked what led her to Thailand. Even when
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That’s the bush of Deer Lake, Ontario; population near 1,000; no roads leading out. Here I stay for two weeks with my brothers and sisters the Meekises. Already I have been out fishing twice, attended a memorial feast, played numerous games of Sorry, and celebrated Canada Day with native Canadians. (Sorry, U.S.A., I know it’s
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CCC stands for Community Children’s Club, the Bible club for kids held every Friday evening in the basement of the Rusk County Community Library. This year, for the first time ever, we took some of the kids (those ten and older who signed up for it) on a canoe trip and camp out. That’s our
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Too often I am an in-house person: maybe sprawled flat into my desk chair, my head and shoulders smashed comfortably into its padding while I write or pray or read. The chair was given to me as a gift six years ago, and this is what it looks like now. Betcha I have flip flops
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