Sarah E. Moffett

Today was the first time in twenty years I have watched my father get ready. I was reading Steinbeck in a musty hotel chair in Monterey when he walked out of the hotel bathroom clad in a white t-shirt and olive slacks. Both were pressed. He pulled up his pants, strung his black belt, rubbed […]

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Few schools would have taken a chance on a student like me. Not many schools want a student recently expelled from another Christian college, regardless of the reason. Eastern Mennonite University, for better or worse, gave me a chance to start over, granting my request for admission as a junior in the fall of 2000.
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Nothing like a hometown paper write up to make one feel important…or validated.  Particularly when said newspaper covers the geographical region of Leadville, Colorado (below), which is the home to several generations of Moffetts and shockingly the setting for part of my first book, Growing Up Moffett.  Prosaic, I know.

“Written with a good sense of […]

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Fall Has Been Canceled After 3 Billion Seasons according to a recent article in the Onion.  This required immediate investigation as fall is the best season.  Ever.  See Moffett make for the Blue Ridge Mountains.  (Or as the Colorado side of the family likes to say, “the East Coast Hills.”)  I will let the pictures and […]

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My mother’s response to the below Squirrel Slayer story. More or less.

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