Gloria Yoder is an Amish mom, writer, and homemaker in rural Illinois. The Yoders travel primarily by horse-drawn buggy and ...

The annual dinner of deer heart and apple dumplings rolled around again. It's been a family tradition for 20 years or so. The ...

Editor's note: Lovina Eicher is recuperating from gall bladder surgery. Her column will return in two weeks. This week and next will be spent answering some reader recipe requests: Dear Lovina: I lost ...

Gloria took the week after Thanksgiving off from writing the column, but she will be back next week. As her editor and a writer myself, I can attest to the rigors of writing a weekly column. She and I ...

For this column I’m going to share some excerpts from my mother Elizabeth Coblentz’s columns from November 1994. Joe and I ...

Gloria Yoder shares two of her favorite Thanksgiving recipes: Grandma's stuffing and Amish pumpkin pie squares.

The last few days have been rainy. The many, many leaves that have not been picked up are now matted to the wet grass. It will be more of a challenge to use the leaf blower now. Joe started the coal ...

"Mom, you need to write a column about this!" Julia quipped as she scattered another handful of straw over her grandparents' newly seeded lawn. Daniel's liking for putting in new yards was planted ...

The annual dinner of deer heart and apple dumplings rolled around again. It’s been a family tradition for 20 years or so. The first evening of shotgun season we siblings all gather at Dad and Mom’s ...