I worry more than I should. I am 34 and have lived long enough to know what it is to lose—to lose a dream, to lose a child, to lose a friend. My instinct is to hold on. So much of my life has been learning to let go. And so much of my life […]
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Last week I offered a survey. In your responses, the number one thing you mentioned was my honesty and openness. That aspect of my blog is what makes it unique, many of you said. Or my openness has helped you in some way. “I could have told you that without a survey,” Ivan said. He
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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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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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