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		<title>3-Day Weekend &#8211; What will You Do?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s everyone doing for the 3-day weekend? Any Amish-like activities on the agenda, e.g., quilting, serious baking/canning, rumspringa? (OK ,just kidding on that last one!)
I&#8217;m camping, so now&#8217;s my big chance to live without AC, electricity, and indoor plumbing. I love camping, so I know I can make it for 3 nights, but I wonder [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amishreader.com/2010/09/03/3-day-weekend-what-will-you-do/</link>
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		<title>Fun Amish Fact &#8212; Courtship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that courtship is done very secretly among the Amish? Engagements are not usually made public until 1-6 weeks before the wedding! A bride and groom&#8217;s closest friends and family members may be told about an upcoming wedding, but otherwise only the church leaders are informed and not the congregation at large.
What do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amishreader.com/2010/08/27/fun-amish-fact-courtship/</link>
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		<title>Five Steps to a Simpler Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Note: This article first appeared in the August 2010 issue of the AmishReader.com e-newlsetter. 
 #1 Schedule your time carefully. Make a weekly calendar so you don&#8217;t miss a doctor&#8217;s appointment, dance recital, or the neighborhood cookout. Keep certain times &#8220;off limits.&#8221; Don&#8217;t sign up for meetings, exercise classes, or volunteer work if it interferes with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amishreader.com/2010/08/18/five-steps-to-a-simpler-life/</link>
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		<title>More on ACFW Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to chime in on Mindy Starns Clark&#8217;s post about the ACFW conference in September. I am very excited to not only attend my first ACFW, but also to be the hostess who&#8217;ll introduce Mindy&#8217;s workshop &#8220;Amish 101.&#8221;  Although I&#8217;ve been to other writers&#8217; conferences in the past, this is the Cadillac of all conventions. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amishreader.com/2010/07/06/more-on-acfw-conference/</link>
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		<title>East Coast Adventures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The best news?  Simply Sara  is done. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amishreader.com/2010/06/25/east-coast-adventures/</link>
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		<title>American Christian Fiction Writers Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know you love to read or you wouldn’t be here at Amish Reader.  But if you also love to write, have I got a suggestion for you:  Get yourself to this fall’s American Christian Fiction Writers Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana!  ACFW is an organization geared toward meeting the needs of new and seasoned authors [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amishreader.com/2010/06/19/887/</link>
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		<title>All About Hillary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: Will you do the impossible and describe yourself in a paragraph?
A: I write generation-next contemporary fiction. My books usually center on normal people learning to live, laugh, heal, and trying to understand the concept of God in a crazy world.
I’m married to a wonderful engineer who keeps me from losing my mind (when you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amishreader.com/2010/04/06/all-about-hillary/</link>
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		<title>Lifetime Movie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following excerpt is from an article on my website about the Amish school shooting.  It was written as supplemental material for my book A Pocket Guide to Amish Life, but given the Lifetime movie of the same topic, I thought I might post some of it here as well.
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A New Normal 
Recently, I dined in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amishreader.com/2010/03/28/lifetime-movie/</link>
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		<title>Fascinating New Book About Amish Business Practices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s always fun when one of my author friends has a new book out, but this week I&#8217;m especially excited about the release of Amish expert Erik Wesner&#8217;s Success Made Simple: An Inside Look at Why Amish Businesses Thrive, from Jossey-Bass Publishers.  If you’ve read the acknowledgements in my own Shadows of Lancaster County and A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amishreader.com/2010/03/26/fascinating-new-book-about-amish-business-practices/</link>
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		<title>TV movie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a TV movie called &#8220;Amish Grace&#8221; that will air on the Lifetime Movie Network on Sunday, March 28, 5 p.m. eastern/8 p.m. pacific. It looks like it will be good. It&#8217;s based on the tragedy at Nickel Mines, where a man walked into an Amish school and injured/killed some little girls. But the real story is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amishreader.com/2010/03/19/tv-movie/</link>
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