What's it like to grow up in a horse-and-buggy community? Here's an essay I wrote recently for one of my writing group assignments. I belong to two writing groups: one meets in person and we can write whatever we wish. The other group is virtual and one member picks a topic every other month. For February, the topic was "roots". Family roots, tree roots, hair roots—whatever roots we wished. I thought about writing about my Swiss-German ancestors. But the two hundred or so forebears of the … [Read more...] about Family Roots
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Anabaptist Financial, Global Impact, and Ken Ham
I love learning, and listening to great speakers is one of my favorite things to do. This week I'm taking a break from writing Ireland stories and instead writing about some recent seminars I attended— three conferences three days in row, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of last week. Wednesday: Anabaptist Financial Employee Seminar On Wednesday I got paid to listen to speakers! Every year, Anabaptist Financial Organization has a big conference focused on work, and happily my company … [Read more...] about Anabaptist Financial, Global Impact, and Ken Ham