Dear Readers, I have arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, to attend Sattler College’s inaugural year. There are beautiful parts of this city. I am living in the heart of Boston in the historic Back Bay district. The Charles River is just a five minute walk from our dorms. Just down the street half a mile are […]
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My days are filled with ordinary things, but when only a week remains before I head off across the country, ordinary things take on special meaning. This Sunday, I took my phone to church so Erin and I could take pictures together in our look-alike dresses. Erin was mostly unimpressed. She thought being thrown up
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July was everything. It wounded me, warmed me, overwhelmed me. Everything that could have happened, did happen. There was a family reunion. There was Deer Lake. There was this crazy awesome group of people—I call them team members, therapists, friends—who impacted my world in ways I didn’t expect. There was beauty. There were sunsets. Children.
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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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When I used to say that old nursery rhyme about the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, I always imagined the butcher as a beefy man with a white apron and a big knife. I never imagined then that I would one day have not one, but four family members who are butchers. Let me
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