Every Thursday for the past 14 years, I’ve woken up to a bed of wrinkly sheets and a bedroom floor strewn with books, Furbies, and various other vestiges of my life. Seemingly by magic, I would arrive home from school to a bed with fresh bedding and a room of perfect organization. This weekly transformation [...]

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The title of tonight’s post describes the main event of my weekend. No, I didn’t listen to the Beatles on repeat (but I have been known to do so on occasion). I didn’t eat copious amounts of Kashi cereal (although I do that, too). And no, I did not consume one of my Strawberry Fields [...]

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My grandfather is a genius. No matter that he was a hard-working engineer for several decades—his true act of brilliance was the invention of coning. What is “coning,” you ask? Within the Yoder family, coning is Granddaddy’s trademark technique of spooning around the sides of the ice cream container (to create a cone shape), in [...]

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