The Girl in the Red Rubber Boots

Category: Thoughts About Life

  • Notes on Kansas

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    Emily Sara Smucker
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    It was 1:30 am, and I was eating donuts and pretending I was still a teenager. It was a funny little donut shop. With its outdated wallpaper, random mugs hanging on the wall, and old paneling, it reminded me of somebody’s basement, mostly finished back in the ’70s, and then forgotten. Apparently the place doesn’t…

  • Learning to Not Be the Star of the Show

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    Emily Sara Smucker
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    This is a picture of me twelve years ago, standing in front of Sight and Sound Theater in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. This is a picture of me last night, trying to re-create the first picture. I once again visited Sight and Sound, for free this time, thanks to a miracle in a theater two weeks ago.…

  • Snow

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    There were flurries of snow in Ohio in November. “This isn’t real snow,” said my roommate, Carita. There was no snow in Delaware in December. There was no snow during the week-and-a-half I spent in Washington DC, or the week I spent with my aunt in southern PA, or my week in Oregon, or my…

  • February/March Life Update

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    Emily Sara Smucker
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    One of my writing goals for March is to focus more on my blog. The intensity of February stripped me of my desire to share my life online. But it’s March now, and the most horrible month of the year is behind me, and it’s time to jump back into it. I left Florida on…

  • Giveaway Winner/Life Update

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    Emily Sara Smucker
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    And the winner of my extra copy of I Capture the Castle is…Rachelle Zook. Congrats, Rachelle! I sent you a Facebook message with the details. As far as a life update, I have less than a week left in Ohio. I’m planning to drive over to Lancaster PA on Monday, where I’ll spend Thanksgiving week before heading…

  • The Real Holmes County

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    Emily Sara Smucker
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    It rained so much it almost felt like Oregon, only with prettier trees. I took to driving the wending, back roads, because they told me that’s where the “real Holmes County” was. Sometimes I was lost on purpose, and sometimes on accident. After my long road trip east, after Texas and Tennessee, it seemed to…

  • Ladies: We Need to Stop Calling Awkward Guys “Creepy”

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    Emily Sara Smucker
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    I’ve heard it from so many Mennonite girls, including, unfortunately, myself. We gather into groups, giggling about boys. “Ugh, Bill just creeps me out,” we say, and then regale our listeners with hilarious tales of poor, uncool Bill and his attempts to flirt. Let me list the reasons why I think this is destructive behavior…

  • Thoughts on Amish/Mennonites and Education

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    Emily Sara Smucker
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    I walked into town. It was a perfect, crisp fall day. Everywhere I looked there were either Amish people, or people staring at the Amish. A big yellow school bus roared up the street. It was full of adorable Amish children, with their bonnets and bowl cuts, peeking out the windows. Now I was staring…

  • Tennessee, and Me

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    Emily Sara Smucker
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    This is my last week in Paris, Tennessee, and I haven’t done a single blog post on my time spent here. This is partially because I’ve been prioritizing other writing projects, and partially because I realized, once I started trying to write about this place, that I don’t quite know the tone to strike when…

  • Saying Goodbye

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    Emily Sara Smucker
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    It’s been a busy, tough, strange week. But my journey has officially begun. I write this from the road. I said goodbye to friends, went to Church camp, and vacationed on the breathtaking southern Oregon coast. A dear friend gave birth to a healthy baby boy, while another couple of our dear friends gave birth…