Today, a guest post by a friend of mine, Naomi Newman: *** Luci does not vote. That may have actually saved a very improbable friendship. IF she were out there lobbying for Donald Trump, American savior, we might have to part ways. She wears a modest cap at all times as well, thus she would […]
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Today, a guest post on doughnuts by Gina Martin. If any of you follow Gina’s Home Joys blog, you may have read this post there at an earlier time. If so, it’s worth a re-read. Makes me laugh and cringe at the same time. Her experience is SO what would happen to me, and I
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I met Sheryl Friesen at the CLP Writers and Artists Conference–a Russian Mennonite girl from Belize visiting the U.S. for the first time. Her comments intrigued me. “The buildings are so big,” she said. “They’re like villages in themselves.” Today I am heading off to Ontario for a summer adventure of my own, and I’ve
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The story starts in 1981 when Grandpa and Grandma picked up the Xiong family—Hmong refugees newly arrived in America with a passel of skinny, dark-eyed children—at the Eau Claire airport. Well, actually the story starts before that, during the years of the Vietnam War, when the Hmong people living in the mountains of Laos were
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“My fiancé and I actually met through kids’ church,” Rachel says. “We plan to continue on and be just as involved after we’re married. It’s exciting for me to think about marrying a guy with the same passions. “He has a house in town, and at one point I wouldn’t have liked that. I grew
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