Rhonda Schrock is the author and creator of “Grounds for Insanity,” a weekly column that was published in The Goshen News from 2007 to 2014. “Grounds” showcased Rhonda’s life as the mother of four growing, mischievous boys and the wife of their stalwart, blue-eyed father. For seven years, readers were entertained and enthralled by her tales from The Three. Her columns are archived here.
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Oct 23, 2012
It’s the season for celebrity sightings. Not that I’ve seen any, mind you, but folks I know have had some excitement. In our small town, we’re not exactly overrun with
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Oct 16, 2012
I should count them all up. I really should. Bartholomew Cubbins did once, and his number was 500. “You think that’s a lot,” I wanted to say the other day
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Oct 09, 2012
She could’ve knocked me over with a feather. “Hey,” she’d said in a breezy email, “I have a last-minute scheduling conflict. Could you host the show? It’ll be easy.” It
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Oct 02, 2012
Note: This Grounds for Insanity column was published in the 10/01/12 edition of The Goshen News. It had come several weeks ago, slipped into the box with the rest of
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Sep 25, 2012
There it was in black and white. “Parents,” said the sheet that came home from school, “have your child name each member of your family. Put an ‘x’ in the
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Sep 18, 2012
What a year it’s been. In fact, our continuing mantra, The Mister and I, is, “We just can’t pay to be bored around here.” At times, this is said with
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Sep 11, 2012
When the skies above turn brown like mud and the national blood pressure spikes, you know it’s here. Yup. It’s Campaign 2012, and we’re up to our knees. It’s getting
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Sep 04, 2012
Backpacks drop. Shoes, they plop. Words rush and tumble, ordinary moments weaving, thread like, on the loom, shuttle passing back and forth. And then it comes. “They’ve abandoned us,” he
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Aug 28, 2012
“It’s a freeway out there,” she said, pointing at the road where a slew of soccer moms whizzed past. “During the summer, it slows down. Then school starts, and it’s
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Aug 21, 2012
Finding out that you’re expecting when you weren’t expecting it is so shocking and, well, unexpected that it takes awhile to wrap your brain around it. Which, as we learned,
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