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Jan 15, 2024 • Sarah Styf

Schools Need ALL Extracurriculars

And they need community support every day of the week

11 hrs ago • Sarah Styf

Loving Your Neighbor Means Wanting Freedom For Them, Too

The freedom given to us in the Constitution is not a one-way street

Jun 18 • Sarah Styf

How We Chose Sports For Our Kids

Without allowing our lives to revolve around them

Jun 13 • Sarah Styf

Humans Are Going to Human

Why do my fellow Christians refuse to apply this reality to our most pressing social issues?

Jun 9 • Sarah Styf

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Taking My Place in the Legacy

Mar 19, 2024 • Sarah Styf

Why I Chose to Self-Publish My First Book

Jan 23, 2023 • Sarah Styf

Don't Tell Me You're a Christian

Feb 14, 2025 • Sarah Styf

I Pledge Allegiance to...Texas?

Jan 26, 2024 • Sarah Styf

Recent posts

Exploring Smoky Mountain National Park

How we escaped the madness of Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg for a few hours at a time, despite be thwarted at every turn

Jun 3 • Sarah Styf

Dear Universe, Please Send Me the Social Media of Yesteryear

I just want to connect with my friends near and far in one simple place

Jun 2 • Sarah Styf

I Know I've Been MIA

But I'm back, at least for a few months

Jun 1 • Sarah Styf

Navigating Tourist Traps in Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg

Because there are just so many options for nearly every age and personality

Apr 12 • Sarah Styf

A Spring Break in the Smoky Mountains

How we ended up heading south for a few days away

Apr 3 • Sarah Styf

Dear Fellow Christians, Knowledge Is not the Enemy

And believing it is hurts our witness

Mar 27 • Sarah Styf

This Is Not the Way it Will Always Be

And learning to accept that opens us up to so much more

Mar 20 • Sarah Styf

It's All So Exhausting

Longing for a boring existence of compassion, competence, and progress

Mar 17 • Sarah Styf

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Shifting Sand

Shifting Political Winds

The introduction of Trump turned out to be more dangerous than I thought possible

Mar 16 • Sarah Styf

It Was Everything I Wanted

My new teaching position was everything I wanted, but still required an adjustment

Dec 29, 2025 • Sarah Styf

A Time of Pressure and Relief

The difficulty in reconciling much needed healing with new challenges

Nov 24, 2025 • Sarah Styf

We Move to Texas

And it wasn't without challenges

Oct 27, 2025

Taking a Call to a Strange Land

How we ended up in Texas

Sep 22, 2025 • Sarah Styf

Settling On, Not Settling In

We finally become church members, but the relationship is tenuous

Aug 25, 2025 • Sarah Styf

On the Journey

On the Journey

Reflections on middle age, family, faith, citizenship, and travel

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Build Community

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Apr 9, 2025 • Sarah Styf

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My review of Becoming the Pastor's Wife

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Mar 18, 2025 • Sarah Styf

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Are we in the furnace?

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Feb 27, 2025 • Sarah Styf

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Help Support Your Favorite Writers By Telling People They Exist

And also some survey questions to help me figure out what project I'm doing next.

Feb 17, 2025 • Sarah Styf

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Some changes coming to my blog

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Jan 31, 2025 • Sarah Styf

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What a week...and I didn't post it on social media

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Jan 26, 2025 • Sarah Styf

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Some additional thoughts on social media

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Jan 26, 2025 • Sarah Styf

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My thoughts on Ghosted and telling our stories

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Jan 19, 2025 • Sarah Styf

Campfire Stories

Turkey Run State Park

Summer camping trip 2024

Jun 19, 2024 • Sarah Styf

Memorial Day pictures 2024

May 27, 2024 • Sarah Styf

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Beware of Venomous Snakes

A story that didn't make it into my camping memoir

Apr 25, 2024 • Sarah Styf

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Campsgiving 2023

We give Campsgiving a try in Michigan

Dec 3, 2023 • Sarah Styf

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Our Summer Vacation 2022

A visual summary of our travels

Jul 27, 2022 • Sarah Styf

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Our Family Trip to Harpers Ferry National Historic Site

We took a step back into history

Jul 20, 2022 • Sarah Styf

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A Day Trip to Valley Forge National Historic Park

What we saw when we explored the place where Washington's troops spent a cold winter

Jul 13, 2022 • Sarah Styf

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Our Family Trip to Independence National Historic Park

What we saw in a few hours in the birthplace of the United States

Jul 6, 2022 • Sarah Styf