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Monica wrote: Oh, I love reading your reader's questions, and can't wait to see how you will answer them. Also, would like to add that a buggy ride is also no fun if the horse is shedding on a windy day.   Monica, about horses shedding… my father and brothers would alway make sure they curried…

Anon wrote: I would like to know what the Amish think of their non-Amish neighbors in general. My next door neighbors are Amish but we’ve only lived here for about 9 months. They seem to work SO HARD that I wonder if they think we are wimps? (I’ve seen the husband spreading manure in SEVERE winter…

The most popular genre in inspirational fiction right now is Amish fiction. In these romantic novels, the Amish community is often idealized as a more communal, slower-paced alternative to the hectic rush of twenty-first century America. I have no doubt that the Amish community has its virtues. But if we are going to read about…

Peggy wrote: Hi Saloma! I’m saving most of my questions for your appearance in S. Hadley 🙂 However, I do have one from this last post: What reason is there for not having storm fronts on buggies? I know there are some communities that don’t allow them and that makes no sense at all, especially…

Wow! I am impressed with the questions you all came up with. Some of them will be hard to answer, because they are beyond the scope of my knowledge. I has been thirty years since I last lived with the Amish. There are things that have changed in my community, but I am not always…

Very often when people think of Amish, they think of their mode of transportation — the horse and buggy. I'd like to offer a view of what it’s like to look out from inside a buggy.    Sometimes those buggy rides were as romantic as they seem, especially on a summer day, when we drove…

As February draws to a close, I am looking out over our little town with the drips going past my window and the sun shining brightly. That means that the sun is melting the snow on the roof. In the meantime, there are great avalanches of snow that come off the roof with a loud…

David just drew a name for the person who is to receive the free, autographed copy of Why I Left the Amish, along with a free eco-friendly fabric gift bag. Congratulations to Deanna — you are the winner of the drawing! Please send me your address, so that I can send this out to you. Thank you…