Author: Emily Sara Smucker

Today I stuck a blue toothpick in my mouth and looked cool. Jason said, “I can look cool without a blue toothpick in my mouth.” I said, “I can look cool with a blue toothpick in my mouth.” Jason said, “Yeah, that is harder.” … Today I pushed a little girl on the swings. Her…

I have writers block. Thus I will leap around from random subject to random subject. It was quite bizarre Friday morning. I got into the DC airport at 1:00 AM and it was completely empty except for our flight. Everything felt a bit surreal anyway, cause I was so tired, and then there was this…

Well all of the sudden we concluded that I should go to Dayton VA and live with my Aunt Rebecca for a while. So that’s where I’m headed in like, 15 minutes. I am sick of trying to fit my life into two large black suitcases. Maybe I should stop flying everywhere and buy a…

Before I even went to SMBI it was my intention to eventually write a novel set at a Mennonite Bible School. So my brain has been tossing ideas around for quite a while, but in the shower last night something clicked that had never clicked before, and I was ready to get my pen moving. But one…

I discovered the other day why I hate romance novels. It’s not that I have anything against romance itself. I mean, hello, I’m a girl, I have to like romance, right? But I detest romance novels. Nothing against you if you like Karen Kingsbury, but it’s not for me. But see, I couldn’t put my…

I  wake up, confused. The light is on. But was I sleeping? Of course I was sleeping, but how can you know if there are no dreams? Or maybe those strange thoughts were dreams, because, now that I think of it, they didn’t make any sense. Everything is hot. My head hurts and I wish…

I decided to give my blog a makeover. Check it out check it out! Random pictures of things I like. Last night I dreamed that I was on an airplane that had a big hole in it. The yellow oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling and I put my mask on before helping the people…

Sometimes it feels like all my friends are frantically trying to sort out their futures and ending up very confused. It’s a very common problem for 19-year-olds to have, which is why I feel a little silly and unoriginal posting about it. But it’s so there. I am confused and my parents are confused and…

First, a pet peeve. Let’s pretend that I have a friend named Bob and a friend named Larry and they don’t know each other. Larry has a lot of opinions. One day, while conversing with Bob, I happen to mention one of Larry’s opinions. I clearly state that this is not necessarily my opinion, it…

It was nothing short of a miracle. You see, I have had so many dreams in the past couple of years, and they keep having to die. Like goldfish. It’s written all over in my book and past blog entries, maybe out in the open, perhaps between the lines. I’m getting better! Will my dreams come true?…