Messy notes & Conditions of Departure (Part 2)
Below is a continuation. Read part 1 here. I fell behind in my note-taking efforts. I never stood a chance but I enjoy trying. Unlike […]
Erin’s Blog
My reaction to the Departing Canada conference (Part 1)
There are two things I enjoy a lot: people smarter than me, and niche studies of Mennonite stuff. This is why I literally book a […]
Reading Sofia Samatar’s “The White Mosque”
As we follow Samatar, following the band of travelers, deeper into this unfamiliar distant land, it all begins to feel a little Tolkien-esque. she describes “an atmosphere of wonder and terror”, and says the pilgrims had a “sense of weird, excessive experience”.
Oh my goodness, I WON!
Let me tell you a sad story. It is the story of how I never win anything. Okay well it isn’t that sad really, because […]
Watching “Hazel’s People”
For a while there, at the Steinbach MCC thrift shop, anything that loosely had to do with Mennonites was thrown onto the shelves labeled “inspirational”, […]