Author: Emily Sara Smucker
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February 2020 Life Update
Hello, folks. Here in Oregon, fake spring is well underway. The wetness is peppered with a few mild days. The daffodils bloomed at the end of January–the earliest I’ve ever seen them. And the camellias too, of course. The flowering plum blossoms will be next. Despite this, precedent tells me that we still have over…
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My Ideals for a Man
I asked Instagram for help with blog post ideas, and someone suggested that I write about my ideals for a man. Hmmmmmmm…… Here are my thoughts. Thought #1: Isn’t it funny how your ideals change as you get older? Like, in my teens and early 20s I was into the interesting guys. You know, the super-extroverted…
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My Top 10 Moments of the Decade
Today is the last day of 2019. The last day of the 2010s. It wasn’t quite the decade I expected it to be. I thought I’d publish books, and fall in love, and get married, and maybe move to a different country, and perhaps have a baby. None of those things happened. What happened, instead,…
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Blogmas 2019 Day 12: Final Thoughts
Today is Christmas Eve. I’m sitting in Max Porter’s coffee shop, with my sister Amy, working on my book. I’m not sure what she’s working on, but our laptops match, only mine is pink and hers is purple. I ignore the Christmas music in the background, but maybe I shouldn’t. I am, after all, writing…
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Blogmas 2019 Day 11: Countdown to Christmas
26 days before Christmas Jenny goes Black Friday shopping with her friends and comes home exhausted, with zero purchases. The rest of us stay home and feel lazy. 23 days before Christmas It is Monday, the last week before the school Christmas program. I glue some streamers onto some Home Depot boxes to make hedges,…
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Blogmas 2019 Day 10: What To Do When It’s the Most Magical Time of the Year, but You’re Sick
The least magical thing about the holidays is the way that we drop like flies as the flu rolls through. When everyone else goes to the fun New Year’s Eve party, but you stay home in bed. When you have an earache and a headache but you still have to go stand in the cold…
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Blogmas 2019 Day 9: The End of the World (repost)
Do you remember how, seven years ago today, the world was supposed to end (according to some ancient Mayan calendar?) Personally, I had completely forgotten until I went digging into my old December blog posts, looking for Christmas memories. Then I saw this post, and the memories came rushing back. Man, we told some…
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Blogmas 2019 Day 8: Jenny and Emily Attempt to Make Santa Hats (A Video)
Jenny and I ransacked the sewing room and attic for fabric, faux fur, cotton balls, yarn, and anything else we thought might be useful for making Santa hats. Then we sat down on Jenny’s bed and, with only our imaginations to guide us, tried to make Santa hats. And we filmed the whole process. Thanks…
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Blogmas 2019 Day 6: Peace on Earth (A Christmas Story)
Important note: While the setting of this story is eerily similar to Brownsville Mennonite School, and it features a certain piece of greenery that also appeared at BMS under similar circumstances, I promise that this story is a work of fiction. The setting is real-ish, but the characters and plot are all made up. ……
The Girl in the Red Rubber Boots 