I don’t know what it is in me that drives me to want to be heard. Once upon a time, a friend told me that she had detected a repressed desire of mine—repressed because I am a woman, and a Mennonite. You practically shout in your public and private writings, ‘I want to preach!’ she […]
Mifflintown, Pennsylvania York, Pennsylvania Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Mercersburg, Pennsylvania Harrisonburg, Virginia South Boston, Virginia Sadly, I forgot to take pictures about half the time, so I don’t have a record of everyone I have spent time with on this trip. But in all my stops, it has been ever so good to connect with old
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My good friend/adopted little sister and I set out for Nashville, Tennessee, last week to pick up books. Lots of books. 988, to be exact, because Lucinda J. Miller, who always overdoes everything, got the brilliant idea not only to be an author but to sell her own books. Lots of them. Ask her in
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Segue: to make a transition without interruption from one activity, topic, scene, or part to another (Merriam Webster online dictionary) I learned this word only within the last couple of years. From the beginning, I loved it. What other word describes transition with such finesse? I segue from Deer Lake, Ontario, to Sheldon, Wisconsin. I
So while all my American friends are celebrating the Fourth of July, I am in Canada. And my Canadian friends, instead of celebrating Independence Day on the 4th, celebrate Canada Day on the 1st. July 1st was the date my little sister and I flew into Deer Lake, Ontario. What have we been doing the
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