Every year at this time, I cannot help thinking of a couple Jehovah’s Witnesses I studied the Bible with a few years ago. Jehovah’s Witnesses do not celebrate Christmas, believing that the Bible does not sanction it, and that its origins are unclean. It is true that Christmas was created to coincide with the Pagan winterContinueContinue reading “Let’s Stop Celebrating Pagan Christmas”
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To Everything There is a Season
I cannot believe it has been over two years since I last wrote here. I have been writing, but I have been so passionate about Lost Sheep of the Church, the blog I told you about in my last post, that I guess I forgot about this blog. When you are just living your lifeContinueContinue reading “To Everything There is a Season”
Chapter 8: A Complicated Question
It is 2010, and I am standing in front of a classroom of thirty college students at Carroll University where I am a student myself. But I am not in this class. My classes are in the communication and english departments. This is a class for business majors studying diversity in the workplace, and IContinueContinue reading “Chapter 8: A Complicated Question”
Chapter 6: Coming to Faith
It is one of many Sunday mornings growing up. Most of the family is in the car, which is idling in the driveway. I say most because we were always waiting on one pokey sibling. BEEEP! Dad lays on the car horn. “Where is he?” Dad would mutter angrily. ContinueContinue reading “Chapter 6: Coming to Faith”
Chapter 5: School Days
I am in first grade, and it is toward the beginning of the school year. The classroom consists of six short round tables, around which are four tiny plastic chairs. I sit in one of these chairs, and next to me in an adult chair sits Mrs. Zahn, the full-time teacher’s aid that helps meContinueContinue reading “Chapter 5: School Days”
Chapter 3: A Rogue Wave Just Before Kindergarten
While I was playing and learning at the Center, conscious only of the present moment, my parents and teachers were thinking about my future. My parents had a big decision to make, one that would effect the course of my entire life. Where would I attend elementary school? My older siblings attended aContinueContinue reading “Chapter 3: A Rogue Wave Just Before Kindergarten”
Chapter 2: Rough Waters From the Start
“I know you’re an adult now and I shouldn’t drag you to things anymore, but I’m dragging you to this. I think it’s important,” Mom said. It was October 2011 and I was complaining because I had just found out that Mom, Grandma and I would be going to a grand opening eventContinueContinue reading “Chapter 2: Rough Waters From the Start”
Chapter 1: The River
As I announced last September, I published a memoir, The Rivers of My Life, about my childhood as a blind person, and my faith journey. At the time, I was hoping to sell books, trying to resurrect my dream of writing for a living. But given the pandemic, and the busyness of school, I neverContinueContinue reading “Chapter 1: The River”
I need My Rumspringa (Part 2)
I was on track to set out on my Rumspringa August 29, 2008 when my parents helped me move into the college dorm. I gave Disability Services the textbooks I needed months in advance, and after three weeks of guide dog training, Gilbert and I could expertly navigate the routes to the dining room andContinueContinue reading “I need My Rumspringa (Part 2)”
I Need my Rumspringa (Part 1)
Hello readers. I hope you are all enjoying summer. For the most part, I am, but I have to confess I have been a little irritable lately. Part of this I think is due to the heat and humidity. Perhaps because of climate change, it seems like heat and humidity gets to me, even inContinueContinue reading “I Need my Rumspringa (Part 1)”
Gilbert and Me 