Charlene, my old-lady Ojibwe friend, changed my life. I also changed hers. Through Charlene, I grew familiar with issues I had never faced before in my small, sheltered world. In trying to help her, I learned from her. In a series of blog posts over the next several weeks, I want to explore, through the […]
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Turtle Heart, the book I began in 2014 and labored long to bring to fruition, will soon be published. In it, you will read the story of a clueless, idealistic Mennonite girl and a feisty, sharp-witted old Ojibwe lady. In it you will see how my friendship with Charlene helped me grow in understanding God
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Since we lost our small one (you can read that post here), I have been thinking a lot more about Charlene, my darling little old lady friend who died. I like to picture the two of them together somewhere in a place I can’t quite get my mind around–but that doesn’t matter as much as
When Dad and Mom and I left Wisconsin late Friday night, the minivan was well-fortified with books and audio books, with snacks and blankets and pillows and computers. We carried enough comfort and entertainment supplies between us to last two months instead of two days. Dad took out a couple seats from the back of
Once upon a time there was a shy little Mennonite girl–well, actually she was twenty-four and not a little girl at all, but because she was young and shy and mostly innocent, she felt like a little girl; and maybe a part of her always will. Let me start again. Once upon a time there
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