{"id":642,"date":"2009-11-24T14:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/tuesday-november-24-2009\/"},"modified":"2009-11-24T14:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T19:31:00","slug":"tuesday-november-24-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/tuesday-november-24-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday November 24, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you have not yet in your life stumbled across Dorcas Smucker’s writing you need to at least go here<\/a> to read her blog. I can’t remember for sure; but I think the first time I read her stuff was when my Grandma gave my mom a copy of Dorcas’ first book as a gift. It wasn’t just Mom who read that book. We girls all read it.<\/p>\n

A few years went by and somewhere along the line I discovered her blog. I’m sure someone told me about it; because I rarely go around finding serious treasures unless I’m shopping. I’m just not much of a “surfer” so I rely on recommendations from other people who are good at that. <\/p>\n

I love her writing style. It’s real, honest life. But oh, the way she says it. Sometimes, like when she shared her grief over the tragic death of her nephew, I wanted to cry. Sometimes she makes me think. But most of the time, I want to laugh and laugh and laugh. She has intelligent, witty kids who are often the source of her quote of the day at the bottom.<\/p>\n

In my family, she was somewhat of a superstar. I’ll never forget the day my sister sent out a family email in a very large font saying, “THE Dorcas Smucker was on my xanga site!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I saw her in my footprints!!!!!!!!!! Somehow I feel as though I have a link to fame.” <\/p>\n

I’m not much of a footprint checker but I’ll admit I checked periodically after that, just hoping. And then one day for some unknown reason, Dorcas landed on my site and not only that, she LEFT A COMMENT. I was flabbergasted and took a turn tooting my horn. <\/p>\n

When I ran into frustration a few weeks before my books were printed, I messaged Dorcas asking for her advice. I was honestly kind of expecting a pretty brief reply and sort of a “bug off, I get this all the time” feeling. I thought that’s what famous people do. Instead, I found her to be extremely helpful and gracious and by now she feels like a cyber-friend. I really hope to meet her for real sometime. But since we live a thousand miles apart, I’ll just keep reading what she writes and getting my belly laugh for the day. <\/p>\n

Have fun reading. But be prepared if you’re new there. You’ll probably hit next page. Next page. Next page. Next page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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