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    Christmas is just eight days away. According to one of the songs we are hearing this month, "it's the season to be jolly."...

  On the cusp of Thanksgiving Day, I look back on a year that has been full of blessings and challenges. Last Thanksgiving I had just come h...

     It's November 13 again. The day we remember Steve. He was born early in the morning of November 13, 1975, and lived with us for eig...

    When I was a teenager what other people thought and did was very important to me. I wanted to fit in, to be accepted, and gain approval....

   My newest book is being released today. When two Indians seek refuge at her Pennsylvania Mennonite home in1763, ten-year-old Anna is terr...

  Everything but the Oink: The Origins of Scrapple If hot dogs are the culinary mystery novels of American cuisine, then scrapple is the Pen...

   Funny how some things you haven't thought of for years suddenly pop into your head. They were there all the time but hidden under the...