The Girl in the Red Rubber Boots

Author: Emily Sara Smucker

  • Take a Sad Song, and Make it Better

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    I knew that I’d figure things out eventually and everything would be fine, but sometimes my emotions don’t listen to my logic. I didn’t want to cry, but I felt the tears trickle down the side of my nose anyway. Blast. What was wrong? Let me make a list: I had been traveling for a…

  • Please Read This If You Are Mom or Amy

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    Ben and I had a flight delayed four hours and couldn’t seem to connect to wifi anywhere and missed our flight to Thailand and can’t get another flight until tomorrow afternoon. Also, every single messaging service seems to be blocked. No gmail, no Facebook…so now I’m trying a blog post out of desperation cause I…

  • Stress

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    I understand that stress is a normal/needed biological reaction, but doesn’t it seem a little ridiculous to you that our body has the same reaction to schoolwork as it does to being chased by a bear? I go to great lengths to decrease the level of stress in my life. I take a lighter course…

  • The Fall and Rise of “LOL”

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    When acronyms became “cool” for texting and instant messaging, I was relatively unimpressed. We’d used acronyms in my house for years. “MIHAPOB” for “may I have a piece of bread,” “YNTM” for “you’re not the mom,” “TCB” for “then come back,” etc etc. I suppose the first time I realized acronyms were entering the popular…

  • The Refugee Challenge

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    I have a challenge for you. I want you to think about how much media you have consumed about the Syrian refugee crisis. You probably spent several hours reading about it before the events in Paris even took place. I’m guessing your entire Friday evening was spent glued to Twitter, Facebook, or your favorite news…

  • What We Do for Extra Credit

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    I gotta say, dressing up and lip-syncing to “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” is the weirdest thing I’ve ever done for extra credit. I posted this picture on Facebook and multiple people asked me for the full story. Goodness. How do I even begin to explain that class? I guess I should have known what I…

  • Words of an Educated Amishman

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    I’ve been spending a LOT of time at school recently, since Ben and I ended up with widely different schedules, yet only bought one parking pass to share between us. Some days it’s dark when I get up and dark when I leave school. As a way to productively fill some of the extra hours,…

  • Good Grief, I Just Like Culture

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    Isn’t there an irony in the fact that I am a communications major, and I’ve been a blogger for ten years, yet I can’t seem to adequately communicate a simple concept on my blog? Friday night I posted about hipster Mennonites. I knew it was likely to go Menno-viral, with that picture and that headline,…

  • The Bizarre Hipster Mennonite Trend

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    Surely I’m not the only one who’s noticed the Pacific Northwest Hipster vibe creeping into Mennonite communities. Specialty coffee. Bushy beards. Donald Miller books. Artsy hole-in-the-wall restaurants. Flannel shirts. Adventuring. On and on. Am I the only one who finds it odd? Ever since I connected to the greater American Mennonite culture through social media,…

  • About Last Blog Post, and Other Things

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    Okay, I have a few topics to cover today. I have homework to do but I feel like doing a blog post instead, so I’ll indulge myself. 🙂 Topic #1: My Latest Blog Post First let me say that yes, I am aware that I misspelled “obsession” as “obession” in the title of my blog…