And the Winner Is…
Mary Yoder, whose name was entered by her daughter, Diane Schrock. Congratulations! And thank you to all of you who participated in this Mother’s Day giveaway.
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Coming Home to Roost: A Mother’s Day Giveaway
My friend and writing mentor, Dorcas Smucker, gave me a copy of her new book, Coming Home to Roost, when it released and said I could review it if I wanted to, but no pressure. That’s a nice kind of review to do and goes along with something I’ve appreciated about Dorcas in the years
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Shyness and Other Fears
I once read a book about the five Chinese elements—fire, earth, water, wood, metal—and how they map onto human personalities. As a disclaimer, I don’t go in for the signs of the zodiac or predicting personality by birth year, etc. This book wasn’t that, but instead took the angle of using the elements to categorize
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Holland 2023
Over Easter weekend Ivan, Annalise, and I, along with Ivan’s cousin Raymond, took a short trip to Holland to fulfill one of Ivan’s dreams–to see the tulips in bloom. First, we flew into Paris and spent one Friday evening there. We did a quick walk through a small section of the Louvre–that vast art museum
Chocolate Chip Cookies and Other Wonderful Mistakes
Lately some words from an article I once wrote have been running through my mind: We serve a God who is a master of fixing. I wrote the article for the CLP Sunday school papers at the ripe wise age of 23 and am a little embarrassed to read it now. It seems so very
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