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Plain Talk about the Amish: The Kitchen Garden
May 15th, 201203:31 PM ET“Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow.” Amish proverb Whenever I visit my Amish friends, I always make a point of wandering out to their vegetable gardens to see what’s growing. Their gardens, usually not far from the kitchen, are bigger than most people’s backyards. Gardens, for the Amish, are a family affair. Husban... -
A Little Rare Bird on an Amish Farm
April 17th, 201205:43 PM ETBy perseverance the snail reached the ark. Amish Proverb Early on the morning of September 12, 2009, Emery Yoder headed out of his house in Holmes County, Ohio, not far from Berlin, to dig some potatoes but got distracted by the sight of a noteworthy bird in his barnyard—a remarkable, rare bird that few might have noticed. Unless, of course, yo... -
Plain Talk about the Amish: Inside a One-Room Schoolhouse
March 05th, 201206:24 PM ET"The more a child is valued, the better his values will be." Amish Proverb The kitchen timer on the teacher's large wooden desk in the center of the classroom is ticking away. It's 9:25 on a warm, sunny April morning. Twenty-seven Amish children are quietly cleaning the tops of their desks, putting their books inside. A few are whipping off their ... -
Plain Talk about the Amish: A Teacher's Viewpoint
March 05th, 201206:15 PM ET"We pass on our convictions to our children by the things we tolerate." Amish Proverb "The biggest reward to teaching is forming the bonds with the pupils," says William Byler, a teacher of twenty-four children in a one-room schoolhouse in Millersburg, Ohio. "I live in the same neighborhood as my pupils. I keep track of former pupils. We stay in ... -
Plain Talk about the Amish: One Boy's Rumspringa
February 12th, 201204:58 PM ET"People convinced against their will are of the same opinion still." Amish proverb Like all other seventeen-year-old Amish boys, Joni (pronounced Johnny) Weaver was finished with school. He'd completed the eighth grade and was now caught in that strange uncertain time between being a child and being old enough to be baptized into the Amish faith. ... -
Plain Talk about the Amish: Penn Dutch Proverbs
January 31st, 201204:57 PM ET"Fortune knocks once but misfortune has more patience." Amish proverb If you want to know a people, know their proverbs. Most every culture has proverbs that are unique to it. Whether called maxims, bromides, truisms, idioms, expressions, sayings, or just an old saw, proverbs are small, concentrated packages that let us peek into the window of a ... -
Plain Talk about the Amish: Coping with Alzheimer's
January 18th, 201210:31 AM ETThis is a story I wrote a few years ago about my dear dad. He passed away on January 1st, just as the sun rose on 2012. "Before we can pray 'Thy Kingdom come,' we must pray 'My kingdom go'." Amish Proverb It is a blistering hot June evening and I am stuck in a traffic jam, retrieving my dad from his latest escapade after recei... -
Plain Talk about the Amish: A Year in an Amish Family
December 30th, 201103:50 PM ET"No winter lasts forever. No spring skips its turn." Amish Proverb A few years ago, I met the Simon Yoders while doing research for a book. The following story is what I've learned and observed about them from visits with the family and through letters I've exchanged with Edna Yoder. Life and work on the Yoders' Ohio farm revolves around seasona... -
Plain Talk about the Amish: Christmas on an Amish Farm
December 03rd, 201101:13 PM ETby Suzanne Woods Fisher "The dearest things of life are mostly near at hand." Amish Proverb On a farm, Christmas morning is like any other day. The cows must be milked. The animals must be fed and tended to. But when the chores are finally done, Christmas begins like any other home. On the Stoltzfus farm, the five children gather in the kitchen, ... -
Plain Talk about the Amish: Beards and Bonnets
October 09th, 201111:21 PM ETBy Suzanne Woods Fisher "It can take years to earn respect and only minutes to lose it." Amish proverb By now, we've all read the news story of the Amish men who were arrested for a bizarre crime: they broke into homes and shaved off the beards of Amish men and cut the hair of an Amish woman. Certainly, a strange crime of harassment, especially ...
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- Plain Talk about the Amish: Penn Dutch Proverbs
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Suzanne Woods Fisher is the bestselling author of the "Lancaster County Secrets" series (Revell) as well as non-fiction books about the Amish, including Amish Peace and Amish Values for your Family. She hosts a popular weekly radio show called Amish Wisdom and lives with her family in California.
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