by MarianBeaman | Oct 28, 2020 | blog, Cliff Beaman artist, Literature, Quotations, Romance, Tips, Uncategorized
Fun House Halloween was a big deal at our two-room school. Every October, the students in my teacher/aunt Miss Longenecker’s lower grades and Mrs. Kilhelfner’s upper-grades skipped class for Halloween amusement in the fun house that transformed the basement of Rheems...
by MarianBeaman | Aug 5, 2020 | blog, Cliff Beaman artist, Family / Nostalgia, meditation, Nostalgia, Romance, Uncategorized
How is a married couple like a herd of African wildebeests and zebras? Herds of African wildebeests and zebras migrate together because their strengths compensate for their weaknesses, making them more compatible and less vulnerable to attack....
by MarianBeaman | Apr 29, 2020 | blog, Cliff Beaman artist, Conflict, Family / Nostalgia, Mennonite Lore, Quotations, Reflection, Romance, Uncategorized
We should have been in church We would have been in church this Sunday Except for the Corona Virus Sunday morning started off well but seemed rather strange since usually we would be in church where Marian taught her two-year olds in Sunday School. But...
by MarianBeaman | Feb 19, 2020 | Award, blog, Conflict, Literature, Memory, Mennonite History, Mennonite Lore, Nostalgia, Quotations, Romance, Tips, Uncategorized
Writers don’t usually get recognition beginning at age 80. And often they don’t write steamy sagas at that age either. Yet Roberta George, a Valdosta, Georgia author, has been nominated for a Townsend Prize, so says a review of her novel, The Day’s Heat,...
by MarianBeaman | Jul 24, 2019 | blog, Coming of Age, Family / Nostalgia, Literature, Mennonite History, Mennonite Lore, Romance, Southern lady friends, Uncategorized
My 5-Year Pregnancy is ending! Announcing an Imminent Book Birth, Mennonite Daughter: The Story of a Plain Girl Book Birth Date: Launch party, September 14, 2019, Jacksonville, Florida Book Blurb What if the Mennonite life young Marian Longenecker...
by MarianBeaman | Jun 12, 2019 | blog, Cliff Beaman artist, Family / Nostalgia, meditation, neighborhood, Neighborhood / Environment, Romance, Uncategorized
“Whoa, what have we got here?” Daddy Cliff asked as he made a ceremony of pulling a heavy rectangle out of the paper bag. “It’s your Father’s Day card!” Joel exclaimed, looking at his dad’s face, smiling from ear to ear. Eyeballing the odd card, Dad fingered the...
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