My little brother Benny got married this weekend, that’s what. He and his new wife Tricia married in Nebraska, where she grew up, but—lucky us—they plan to live right here in Rusk County, Wisconsin. Benny will continue to work at Conrath Quality Meats, the meat processing plant my three brothers own together. Trish will continue to […]
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No, Boston wasn’t actually the next stop on our China tour. I have more memories of our trip to record and more of Chad’s beautiful photos to share and will continue that saga next week. This is just a news flash, a short interruption to tell you all that I will be moving to Boston,
The following blog post was originally published in my column in Mennonite World Review. Photo above is by Topich on Unsplash. I met her at the Mall of America in Minneapolis, two and a half hours from my home in rural Rusk County, Wisconsin. She was tall and dark and beautiful. She wore a bandana that covered
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I liked looking at the young faces best, when I gave my talk at the University of Wisconsin in Barron. Old faces are nice, I suppose, but they are standard, decided, set in their habits like fish swimming back and forth, back and forth, in a tank. Young faces are fluid, like the river. They
My talk at the university, titled “The Story of a Mennonite” went well. I had never spoken at a university before and was very nervous. Actually I was more nervous because my former creative writing professor would be there, and I wrote about him in my book and never mentioned to him that I was
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