The Girl in the Red Rubber Boots

Author: Emily Sara Smucker

  • The April Blogging Challenge

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    Welcome to the April Blogging Challenge! In previous years, Mom, Jenny, and I took turns blogging every weekday in the month of April. We called it “MOP,” which stood for “Month Of Posting.” This year we changed the name, after having a Facebook discussion about it. In the end we decided to scrap the acronym…

  • Random Life Update

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    -Finals are done. Now the nail-biting wait for grades begins. (My GPA this term will determine what level of honors I can graduate with, so I’m a bit on edge.) -I wanted to go on another camping trip with Ben over spring break. He decided he was going to camp with his guy friends instead,…

  • The Flood

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    Note: Thanks to the fact that I’m now a writing minor, I have various bits of short fiction lying around my computer. My latest assignment was to write a “weird” story. Woo hoo! My favorite kind. See if you can guess what the inspiration for this one was.  The Flood At first I thought I…

  • Winter

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    Winter feels like a dripping faucet when you’re trying to fall asleep. Winter feels like an itchy tag that you can’t remove without ripping a hole in your shirt. Winter feels like being a child at a dinner party, waiting and waiting for the boring adult conversation to stop so that you can go play,…

  • Belknap Hot Springs

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    Ashlie and I may no longer be roommates, but we still make time to get together for adventures. This time, Ashlie found a hot springs in the Cascades for us to go to. I’ve wanted to visit a hot springs for years, but unfortunately they’re reputed to be crowded and clothing-optional places. Belknap hot springs,…

  • A Stupid Failure Who’s Wrong About Things

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    “What didja get?” I asked Nick, who sits beside me in French class, when he got his quiz back. “I got a B,” he said. He gave a short, mirthful laugh. “I didn’t even study!” “Émilie,” said the teacher, handing back my quiz. I’d gotten an A. But I’d also studied pretty hard. And somehow…

  • Reflections on 2016 (Part 4 of 4)

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    Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 The Christian Grad Fellowship As September rolled into October, Ben started grad school and I started my senior year of college. We compared schedules. Mondays and Fridays we could carpool, we decided. But then he added a caveat. “I’ll be staying at school a little later this Monday,” he…

  • Reflections on 2016 (Part 3 of 4)

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    Read Part 1 Read Part 2 Summer Every year, the beauty of being outdoors all day in an Oregon summer overwhelms me. The smell of the twilight dust. The wild mint growing in a lavender haze at the edge of the fields. The brilliant sunshine that makes the grain look like gold and the sky…

  • Reflections on 2016 (Part 2 of 4)

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    Read Part 1 Spring 2016 was much more eventful than Winter 2016 was, in both good and tragic ways. On the tragic side of things, my great-uncle James and great-aunt Orpha, who lived just down the road from me, got in a terrible car accident in early spring. James was killed right away. Orpha held…

  • Reflections on 2016 (Part 1 of 4)

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    I’m going to re-cap my year, because I’ve been soooooo lazy about blogging. January: The Sleepy Month At first I thought it was jet lag, because I’d just returned from a trip to Thailand with my brother Ben. I slept during the nights and took three or four naps during the days. I didn’t go…