Sunlight through Dusty Windows: The Dorcas Smucker Reader
Sunlight through Dusty Windows: The Dorcas Smucker Reader Description : Imagine raising six spirited kids on a grass farm&#8212today. Newspaper columnist Dorcas Smucker and her brood live out their days in full view in this collection of musings&#8212picking blueberries while watching for bears, hoping for angels while driving off the freeway, moving into the &#8220thousand-story house,&#8221 and enduring lectures from teenage children about the virtue of respect. Three books in one, this collection includes Smucker&#8217s Ordinary Days: Family Life in a Farmhouse, Upstairs the Peasants are Revolting: More Family Life in a Farmhouse, and Downstairs the Queen Is Knitting. Often slightly off-stride and with disarming humility, Dorcas finds endless materials for stories and life lessons in everyday happenings. As she says, &#8220I, like my mother, feed my children mashed potatoes and stories. I repeat the ones I heard from Mom and turn our family escapades into tales to be repeated while washing dishes or snapping buckets of green beans on the front porch. A story is much more than just a story, of