For the rest of January, I will be offering my memoir Why I Left the Amish for $18.00 with free shipping anywhere in the continental United States. I simply need to receive your order in the month of January for you to get this deal.To order, please click on the book icon on the right of this page, which takes […]
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Shirley Showalter, author of the blog 100 Memoirs, has posted a review of my memoir Why I Left the Amish. It is a review that touched me to the point of tears because of the way that she understood the book (and my story), right down to its core. I think she hits the mark between honesty of detail in describing the abuse and
The other day, I posed a question to my readers about why the Amish lifestyle is so romanticized compared to the Mennonites. You can read my post and the stimulating discussion that followed here. Based on what I heard from many of you, and after pondering the issues that these ideas triggered, I am going to try to write some thoughts
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It seems that David and I don’t really have one New Year’s Eve tradition… if anything our tradition is to do something different each year. Last night was no exception. We went to several performances at First Night in Northampton and had dinner at the Green Street Cafe for a very tasty dinner. We were accompanied by a young woman
