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Snow Stories— Two Broken Bones, a Close Call with a Horse, and a Tulip Snow

January 10, 2020 by Susan Burkholder 2 Comments

Snow and tulips

We just got our first snow this week, a few inches of pretty, fluffy snow. Living in eastern Pennsylvania, we can usually expect a few measurable snowfalls each winter, nothing too serious. But there's always the chance of something more exciting happening when there's snow, such as the winter both my brother and I had broken bones, or the time I nearly got trampled by a horse on a snowy back road on my way to church. My brother had the first broken bone. After school one day, he and the … [Read more...] about Snow Stories— Two Broken Bones, a Close Call with a Horse, and a Tulip Snow

Filed Under: Family, Humor, Neighborhood, School Tagged With: winter

The Plays at Penn Johns School

September 1, 2019 by Susan Burkholder 7 Comments

School classroom

When the night of the school program came and the red gingham curtains parted, our classroom was a theater filled with wit, drama, and far more comedy than we intended. Last week I went with my sister to watch my niece play a bit part in a children's music film, and the experience made Brenda and I recall the plays we acted in at Penn Johns School some twenty years ago. "I wish I could get my hands on the old video of me playing Mrs. Brown." Brenda told us. She, her daughter Angela, and I … [Read more...] about The Plays at Penn Johns School

Filed Under: Family, Humor, School

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