For over a month now, I’ve been writing down snippets of things I want to tell you, so this update will be random and long and interspersed with pictures of life here on the farm (that we no longer farm much, since Ivan is into storage buildings and we rent most of our farmland out). […]
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This post was first published in Anabaptist World. We recently bought a neglected house in town to use as a rental—a property foreclosed on and sold cheap after its owner died. So now we are left with the task of sorting through piles of “junk” once valued by someone. I sort through a box of
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If you are interested in history or interested in Mennonites, you may be interested in Melodie Davis’s new memoir: Memoir of an Unimagined Career: 43 Years Inside Mennonite Media. Melodie Davis was my managing editor during the production of Anything But Simple, and I greatly enjoyed working with her and staying in contact with her
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This year I tried something new. I joined the Advanced Writers and Speakers Association, an association of Christian women, and traveled to Lexington, Kentucky, with my sweet husband to attend the AWSA conference. Ivan spent a day and a half watching the baby while I attended workshops and made connections with other Christian women writers
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Ivan didn’t have a list of requirements when he went looking for a wife, but he did hope for a person who could speak Pennsylvania Dutch, since that is really his first language, the language batted back and forth with brothers and passed with laughter across the table at Kinsinger family birthday parties. In my
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