Author: Emily Sara Smucker
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15 of my Favorite Feelings
Today, in honor of a youtube video I watched once and quite liked, I decided to write down 15 of my favorite feelings. That feeling when, in the middle of some stressful or generally unpleasant situation, I get a cup of tea and a little space of time where I don’t have to make any…
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May Life Update
One of these years I would like to have a calm, relaxing May. It’s probably the prettiest month of the 12, yet I spend most of it in some frantic end-of-the-school-year rush. Last week my giant task was to get the yearbook printed. I’ll spare you the details of the 297 things that went wrong,…
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When Tech is No Longer Exciting
I was born in 1990. My entire childhood and adolescence was defined by this idea that, every six months to a year, something new and absolutely mind-blowing would enter my universe. A computer A color monitor A color printer Email A digital camera A pager CD’s DVD’s Instant messenger Dial-up internet USB drives Cell phones Laptops Flat-screen…
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April Giveaway Winner+8 Random Thoughts
The winner of my book giveaway is Celina Lynnette! Congrats, Celina! Sorry, I am too tired to do the whole draw-a-name-out-of-a-hat-and-take-pictures-of-the-process thing. That means that this post is super short and lame, and not really a proper April Blogging Challenge post. Maybe I’ll go all Emily-of-ten-years-ago and post some random thoughts. 8 Random Thoughts: Today…
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Seven Reasons Why Single People Become Cynical
I think cynicism may be the great vice of single people. It’s been such a struggle for me, especially in the past few years, that I’ve begun to think of it as part of the universal single experience. I may be wrong on this; I’ve certainly known singles who’ve seemed to avoid this path, and…
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April Book Giveaway (ABC Day 18)
Today I’m cleaning off my bookshelf and doing a little book giveaway. These books fall squarely in the camp of “I enjoyed them, but I don’t necessarily want them cluttering up my bookshelf forever, but someone else might LOVE them.” At least, someone might love the first one. Not sure about the second. But I’ll…
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Travis and Christina’s Wedding
When Travis was in town, things were different. Before he arrived in Oregon to sing for Gospel Echoes, our local prison ministry group, my brother Ben and I were pretty much the only single people in our 20s at church. But after Travis came, we hung out with him, as well as his roommate Javen…
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7 Ways To Maintain Friendships in Adulthood (ABC Day 11)
One of the many topics of conversation that came up during my trip to Montana with my Aunts was friendship. I found it surprising how many people get to adulthood and feel friendless. So I decided to write a post about friendship. But first, a couple caveats. A. I am very aware that being single…
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Hang Out With Your Aunts (ABC Day 8)
At 3:00 am on a Thursday morning, we left on a trip; me, my mother, and my aunts. And my first-cousin-once-removed, for good measure. “Can I come along?” I’d begged my mother, a week and a half prior. I’d enviously heard her plan this trip, to a ladies’ retreat in Montana where she was speaking,…
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What the World Will Be Like in 10,000 Years
I am going to leave on a trip in a couple hours, so I’m doing kind-of a fun silly blog post today. On Facebook, I recently asked people to give me their favorite podcast episodes, and one of the ones suggested was called “Ten Thousand Years,” by 99% Invisible. The podcast was about how the…
The Girl in the Red Rubber Boots 