Posts by Saloma Furlong
New Front Door… and More
David and I spent untold hours with all the details… David had to build out all the trim because of the extra insulation and he stripped the lead paint from the frame. The little panels on both sides of the door are now filled with insulation, the door has a double pane, and David installed…
Read MoreThanksgiving
‘Twas the night before Thanksgiving… I hope you all had an enjoyable and happy Thanksgiving. I sure did… it was one of my best ever. I had prepared as many dishes as I could ahead of time, so on Thanksgiving morning I only had to prepare five things: turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, and a…
Read MoreThanksgiving with Mem’s Family – Part III
We had just passed all the food and were getting our first tastes when my uncles sauntered into the room. “Are you still eating?” they teased as they stood over my aunts’ shoulders with their full bellies. I wondered how my aunts could just blush and try so meekly to defend themselves, when I had…
Read MoreThanksgiving with Mem’s Family – Part II
As usual, on this Thanksgiving Day, Momme’s living room was as spotless as her kitchen. A clock ticked pleasantly on the shelf above the bureau. The three hickory-bent rocking chairs sat on the hand woven rugs on the hardwood floors. There was a white sewing rooster sitting on her treadle-run sewing machine by the window.…
Read MoreThanksgiving with Mem’s Family – Part I
Getting together with Mem’s relatives for the holidays was a pleasant break in the routine of our lives. We had long since outgrown the buggy, so when we went to Momme and Dodde’s (Grandma and Granpa’s), eight miles away, we hired our neighbor to take us there. She was one of the “taxi drivers” in…
Read MoreAmish and Spanking
On November 6, Dr. Donald Kraybill wrote an article about Amish and spanking for The Huffington Post, and Erik Wesner posted a follow-up on Amish America. Below is my response to these articles. “They also note that the book of Hebrews suggests that God disciplines Christians as a father disciplines a son and that such…
Read MoreThe Mennobrarian Book Review
At the end of the book, Saloma is finally home. ~ Monica the Mennobrarian Monica the Mennobrarian has posted a review of my memoir Why I Left the Amish on her blog. Have you ever had someone say so many touching things about you that you cried? That is how I felt when I read…
Read MorePaul’s Birthday
This is an incredibly busy week, so I haven’t had any time to update my blog. David and I are painting basement walls and trim boards for the soffit boards, fascia boards, and trim boards being cut and installed on the outside of the house. Between each of us having a job, coordinating the progress…
Read MoreA Twenty-Year Visitor
Twenty seven years ago this night, I was going into labor with my first child. The nine-month (plus twelve days) gestation period was coming to an end. David kept saying throughout the pregnancy, “It’s like we are going to have a visitor we’ve never met show up, except this visitor will stay for the next…
Read MoreNovember
Much as I dread the oncoming winter, that the month of November signifies, November has been a month of many transitions in my adult life. Many, though not all, of those have been good transitions. In 1977, I left the Amish for the first time on November 7. Then it was three years later, to…
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