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My Grandpa is so Beachy
My Grandfather has been living with us this summer. At 97 years old he still enjoys the occasional adventure. On that note, we went on an outing to the beach Saturday. The boys and Dad were busy, but Mom, Grandpa, Jenny and I packed a picnic lunch and took off. It was a beautiful sunny…
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A Possible Return to Blogging
I love the internet. I love looking at the list of people who “like” something I post on facebook, because it’s always such a strange conglomeration of people. Old friends and new, liberal and conservative, old and young. I like to imagine that we are all at a party together, laughing at the same joke.…
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This Is Goodbye
I have decided to, for a while at least and maybe forever, stop blogging. You may wonder why someone who has faithfully blogged for eight years and twenty-three days would suddenly decide to give up on the craft. I’m not sure if I can explain, or if I even want to explain. But I will…
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10 Signs you might be a Mennonite girl in College
1. You walk into a party and your friend says, “Hey, want a non-alcoholic beer?” 2. You get a job driving combine for a local farmer, and spend a significant amount of time thinking about the carbon emissions all this machinery must produce. 3. You mention “Jehovah’s witnesses handing out paraphernalia,” only to be laughed…
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Too Tired to Title this
This morning my alarm rang at 7:30 am. In half an hour I was on my Mom’s bicycle, peddling to the warehouse. I spent an hour sticking tags on bags of grass seed at the going rate of $0.50 a pallet, which can earn me a few dollars more than minimum wage if I go…
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Sounds of Summer
Jenny blows up the air mattress so she can spend the summer sleeping outside. Summer smells like Garage Sale perfume on your hands. It is Canada day.
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Wendy Darling
Today was day 1 of the ROV competition, in which I ran around setting up a poster display, printing documents on the floor of the lobby of the aquatic center, and trying to organize a presentation that completely rested on the knowledge of the other club members. It went well though. Now, the communications portion…
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Robots are Cool
Recent conversations have been running something like this: Me: So yeah, I joined the ROV club on campus… Person: What’s the ROV club? Me: Well, “ROV” stands for “remotely operated vehicle,” so it’s basically an underwater robot. Person: Wait, you make robots? Me: Well, um, not really. But I think they’re cool. … At the…
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The “Generally Awesome Person” Award
I graduated tonight. I sat beside my friend Nora. We each had a card with our name and degree on it, for the person to read off just before we were handed our diploma cover. “I wonder if they’ll read off everything I wrote on here,” said Nora. I looked at her paper. After her…
The Girl in the Red Rubber Boots 