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The Boy with a Dream and a Cure

The Boy with a Dream and a Cure

by MarianBeaman | Sep 29, 2021 | blog, popular culture, Quotations, Uncategorized

The Boy with a Dream and a Cure   True Story In the nineteenth century, a Member of Parliament went to Scotland to make an important speech. He travelled to Edinburgh by train, then took a horse-drawn carriage southward to his destination. But the roads were bad...
Crying: Trying to Make Connection

Crying: Trying to Make Connection

by MarianBeaman | Sep 22, 2021 | blog, Family / Nostalgia, Literature, meditation, Uncategorized

Crying: Trying to Make Connection   “Her throat felt thick inside; it was the lump that forms when it might help to cry but tears don’t come.”      Amy Kenyon, author of Ford Road I’ve been wanting to cry for days now. Not because of anything specific, just...
What I Learned from Chef Molly Yeh

What I Learned from Chef Molly Yeh

by MarianBeaman | Sep 15, 2021 | blog, popular culture, Recipes, Uncategorized

Molly Yeh,  a Chinese-Jewish American chef, cooks tasty dishes on the Food Network. In a show titled Girl Meets Farm, Molly is equally at home with baking challah as using chopsticks.     “Molly Yeh attended the Juilliard School in New York City to...
Wordless Wednesday: Glass Sculpture

Wordless Wednesday: Glass Sculpture

by MarianBeaman | Sep 8, 2021 | blog, Family / Nostalgia, popular culture, Travel, Uncategorized

  Your thoughts on the photo?   Reply below to enter a drawing to win an e-copy of Mennonite Daughter, photos and artwork in full color. Contest winner will be chosen via random.org and announced next Wednesday. Thank you! Indicate if you want to be entered...
Dorian Delivers Mennonite Daughter

Dorian Delivers Mennonite Daughter

by MarianBeaman | Sep 1, 2021 | blog, Family / Nostalgia, Memory, Mennonite History, Travel, Uncategorized

The National Weather Service blurted out: “Get ready for a hurricane, Jacksonville, a Category 5 storm named Dorian, is creeping up the coast.” It was September 2, 2019, and any day now I was awaiting the delivery of 16 cartons of books, my memoir. The skies...
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