Sometimes I look at people like my own sweet grandma and my mother in law, who are both in their 80’s, with a pleasant sort of condescension. Their lives revolve around their quilt blocks and their canning and what the neighbor said. For news, they read the Budget. (For the unenlightened, that’s a 50-page weekly […]
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I made my own wedding dress. I have sewed dresses for myself since I was a teenager—have moved from frustration and seam rippers and the sewing of sleeves to neck holes to calm satisfaction in watching the pieces fit together, just so. My wedding dress was of simple design, its only stab at “fancy” a
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I briefly considered calling this post “Mennonite and Single,” but that sounds too much like a profile I might put on a Mennonite dating site—a “here I am, come and get me” type of line. Several of my non-Mennonite friends, concerned about my lack of a husband, have actually suggested I start a dating service
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Our trip started here: slumped shivering and tired in those uncomfortable airport seats while we waited for our early morning flight for Belize City. Using beach towels and backpacks for pillows, charging phones while we (kind of) slept. You know the drill. The next thing we knew, we were here. The world was warm and
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So where have I been the past two weeks? Writing, that’s where. And I am proud to announce that Anything But Simple: My Life as a Mennonite is done written! For now, anyway. I am sure there will be changes to make after my editor gets it. The book is coming out in July. Here
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