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7:30 AM I leave for school. Steven has a stomach ache. Jenny makes him tummy ache tea. 9:30 AM My mom sends me a text. I don’t see it because I am in class. 10:30 AM I am out of class. My phone beeps, with my usual daily Bible verse text from Stuart. I see…

Today was the day of my big party. I mean, like, in the play. My husband and I threw this big party and we invited a man named Topper who was a friend of my husbands. And THEN, we played blind man’s bluff, and Topper wouldn’t catch anyone but my sister Rose. It was quite…

The good news is that I will probably drop math class. The better news is that I can make up dropped math class credits by being in the school play. I auditioned for the play Friday. I had never auditioned before. Ever. For anything. Ironically, I held auditions last spring when I was casting parts…

Once, when I was five, all the Yoder relatives came to our house for a visit. The adults spent their time doing adult things like reading and giving back rubs. Yoders, for the record, are obsessed with reading. Of course the children played, like children do. My sister Amy, who was two years older than…

Today at my college library they had a poster up about banned books, and I was amazed to see “Blubber,” by Judy Blume, on the list. I have no idea why anyone would ban that book. I remember when I first saw the book “Blubber,” sitting on the upstairs bookshelf. I picked it up when…

Have you ever watched those videos on youtube where those girls are like, “so, I went to forever21, and this is what I bought,” and then they show you everything they got? No? You have a life? Lucky you. I’m not sure why I find it so interesting what other people buy, but I do.…

I planned this tea party for months. Sometimes I get an idea, and I plan it for months, but it never really happens. The reason is, sometimes it is hard to do big things on your own. Sometimes you need to ask someone to help you. I asked Rita Baker. It was a delight to…

Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austin’s lesser known novels. My suspicion is that people mostly pick it up to read because they liked Pride and Prejudice and want something similar. But Northanger Abbey isn’t really like Pride and Prejudice. Yes, the setting and culture is the same. But Pride and Prejudice is perfect –…

Today I wore a red belt around my waste. Perhaps that showed off how skinny I am. Or something. Because a girl said to me, “Emily, you are so skinny!” “What?” I gasped, almost meanly. “You are just as skinny as I am.” It turns out that she meant “you are so skinny” as a…