Where have I been? Editing, mostly. I have a new memoir coming out this spring with Elk Lake Publishing, and I am currently working on the 22nd revision–though in all honesty, I stopped counting long ago. I call my upcoming book Turtle Heart. It tells the story of a friendship that changed me. My friend […]
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Eighty-some years ago, as recorded in a history pamphlet written by my grandpa: “Four brethren of an adventurous nature decided to go west.” The four “brethren,” members of a Mennonite church in Pennsylvania, settled their families in northern Wisconsin, on land dotted with stumps, swamps, rocks, and spindly trees—but with a rich layer of topsoil
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“Have fun writing…” he said this morning when he went out the door. “…writing something fun for once.” He knew that instead of all the school and business projects I’ve been working on recently, I would be writing this blog post. The apostle Paul said a single woman cares about the things of God and
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If there’s any spot that symbolizes to me the country community near Oakland, Maryland, it’s Saffiticker’s Ice Cream, just down the road from our farm. To celebrate milestones–the end of haying, say, or 80 jars of pears put away–we take our golf cart across 219–a busy highway quieted by darkness–to the hayfield just across the
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Learn how to make bread-n-bean soup and dried-apple moon pies, a traditional Amish meal.
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