

Chapter 27 - A Pastor's Wife
This stage of life is a dramatic shift. For years I have received instruction, discipleship. Now Zach and I are to take leadership of a...


Chapter 26 - Dancing Sunlight
We fly back to New York City, pick up our motorcycle from the docks and ride it to Buffalo, where Uncle Dewey and Aunt Petey welcome us...


Chapter 25- Widening Horizons
During our stay in eastern New York, Zach and I listen in when Dad teaches the graduate students in anthropology at Nyack Seminary. My...


Chapter 24 - Quonset Hut in the Aleutians
The culture of this Alaskan crab cannery is singular. Russian immigrant women work here, their hair covered with babushka scarves. They...


Chapter 23 - Motorcycling to Alaska
Zachary and I each have another year of Bible college before graduation—but Zach is ready for a break. “Why don’t we take a semester...


Chapter 22 - Fractional Jubilance
Zachary and I drive north to honeymoon a few days at a resort on Big Sandy Lake. The snowstorm has made a winter wonderland! After...


Chapter 21 - Christmas Trees and Candles
Reflecting back, I realize what large decisions I was making during this time—confirmation of calling, whom to marry, what stream of the...


Chapter 20 - Crisp Uniforms
The student nursing dorm is an ancient brick building that had housed the original Swedish Hospital. The newer hospital building across...


Chapter 19 - The Castle
The largest brick building housing St. Paul Bible College (now Crown College) is both friendly and forbidding. The drizzly autumn day,...


CHAPTER 18 - ONE YEAR TO ADJUST
Romaine and I ride the bus together to Bentley High School in Livonia, Michigan from our rented single story home set on a long street...






































