Category: Thoughts About Life
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MOP April 11: An Uncool Taste in Music
A couple years ago I took a field trip to the Oregon Coast with my geology class. I didn’t know anyone except the teacher. My lab partners had signed up for a different field trip. When lunchtime came, I sat by myself and daydreamed, figuring I’d be left alone. I wasn’t. A guy with a…
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I’ll Live when I’m Old
I caught some sort of illness after I came back from Thailand that took everything. out. of. me. I thought it was jet lag at first, but it didn’t go away for weeks. I dropped half my classes and slogged through life. I carry ill health around with me like a coiled spring in a…
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The Thing About Spring
Spring is my favorite season. … You know how it is near the end of a book, where things just get worse and worse and more dramatic and misunderstandings mount, and then whoosh! You reach the climax. The ring falls into the volcano, Ella enchanted breaks her curse, Captain Hook falls into the jaws of…
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The Bizarre Hipster Mennonite Trend
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,…
The Girl in the Red Rubber Boots 