With Grandpa Jonas gone and Grandma Dorothy moved to Iowa, the Kinsinger siblings decided to distribute Grandpa’s leftover possessions–much of it still from the years he was married to his first wife, Ida–through a family auction. The siblings traveled from their respective homes for three days of sorting, discussing, and boxing. On a Sunday near […]
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Four lovely ladies attended my book talk and signing at the local library today. They listened to me tell a little about my journey in getting Turtle Heart published, asked some great questions, and enjoyed the excerpts I read. This is really what writing is about–finding the ones who “get” your writing, whether in your
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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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It was nice. I will share some of my favorite pictures. I will also tell you that I intended, last week, to write a follow-up post to my questions about the doctrine of separation and instead failed to post at all. I still hope to write that post later this week. For now, the pictures.
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“About me, you can do it this way,” they say. Instead of “As far as I’m concerned…” or “I like…” as I’ve always heard it before. “I don’t know did it come down or not,” they say—and they are not asking a question. The words carry the same meaning and inflection as, “I don’t know
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