Not long after I met Kelsey Osgood, we sat at a picnic table at the country ice cream store just down the road, she with her individual-sized bag of chips (chosen because of her Orthodox Jewish food requirements), I with my non-kosher cone. We discussed—among other things—Jewish food laws that seemed so stringent as to […]
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I went back to Deer Lake this summer. I first went to Deer Lake the summer of 2015 under Northern Youth Programs. They had received a request for Bible school teachers from the pastor at the Harvest Pentecostal church and sent two young people there as part of their summer ministry program. Just Laura and
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For me, the easiest way to give an update is to share photos. Below are a few of my favorites from summer 2023. First, here’s Ivan and Annalise and me atop Backbone Mountain overlooking Pleasant Valley. In real life, you can pick out our farm in the valley below, but I doubt it’s identifiable in
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Ah….October. One of my favorite months of the year. It holds crisp, clear air, sky so blue you could punch it, leaves whose colors soak into your arteries, and a rich scent of dying things–which is in a paradoxical way a renewing of life. October also holds my birthday, which turned out to be really
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April started off right with a visit from my aunt Dorcas on the very first day. Dorcas tells me I was “her little girl” when I was Annalise’s age and a little older. She used to cuddle me and read me stories. As a young adult, I lived with her for the length of three
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