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Before I get into the important part of today’s post, just know that I am now a tweeting twitterer.  @shawnsmucker.  I still don’t really know how it works.  Or where these things go.  But I’m giving …

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This whole move from Leesburg, Virginia to Lancaster, Pennsylvania got me thinking a lot about life, and what my purpose is.  Our identity as a family, and my own as an individual, felt like it had …

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I led the way up Route 15.  The 26-foot UHaul I was driving felt like a lunar module bouncing and heaving on the road, and I could hear some of the contents creak and sway in the back.  The headlights …

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“Everything within takes place after Jack died and before my mom and I drowned in a burning ferry in the cool tannin-tinted Guaviare River, in East Central Colombia, with forty-two locals we hadn’t …

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Sort of like the beginning to all of those great mystery stories . . . it was a dark and stormy night.  The moving truck was packed.  Maile was out in our mini-van, parked on the street and pointed …

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Now, as promised, Tuesday’s Top Ten: (drumroll please) Top Ten Breakfast Cereals 10) Chocolate Chip Wheatabix – unless you’ve lived overseas you’ve probably never heard of this flaky, …

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