Grounds for Insanity

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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Jan 28, 2014

Husband’s frontier spirit flourishes in vortex while others “wimp out”

“I think people are wimps.” This was the proclamation put forth by Mr. Schrock, conserver of words, who nailed his feelings in five. Tired of anemic winters where the high

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Jan 21, 2014

News junkie always riveted, never bored with news

I’ve been a news junkie since the tender age of 6. That’s when, according to my mother, I’d come to them with news of the day. Startled, they’d snatch up

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Jan 14, 2014

Columnist unhappy with gifting, prays for a new one instead

It happened at the grocery store. We were on a mission, The Mister and I, to bring home the bacon. And the milk and the cereal and the eggs and

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Jan 07, 2014

Non-resolver won’t schedule love; sets goals of family time, laundry lessons

Christmas is over. The stockings that were hung ‘cross the bookcase with care have been pillaged. Plundered. Left dangling and limp by the villagers, names traced in glitter on each

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Dec 24, 2013

Seek the Child, light of the world

Standing there, I see it. At the end of the checkout lane, two rows of heartbreak stretch long across a bulletin board. Silent, I take it in. On every sheet,

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Dec 17, 2013

Mother’s wish list includes two front teeth, fear of the Lord and peace on earth

And isn’t that about it? “All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth.” Yes, that’s just about it, but not quite. What I’d like, actually, is for those

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Dec 10, 2013

Rejoice in the love, sacrifice of God at Christmas

It wasn’t meant to be this way. On a starry night those centuries ago when Heaven slipped, squalling, onto hay, it was silent. No impeccable nursery in coordinating colors. No

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Dec 03, 2013

Rodents not welcome on The Three, unlucky couple dispatched

For crying out loud. Can’t we go one winter without a visitation? Just one? Living in an old farmhouse, this is as likely as a Kennedy turning Republican or Mr.

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Nov 26, 2013

Writer shocked, envious to learn that men can actually think “nothing”

For an entire year, they’d been in my head. Ever since the message had come, they’d huddled there, waiting, expectant in the back of my fertile brain. It was in

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Nov 19, 2013

Heaven shines down at death of a neighbor

“It looks like Heaven’s shining down.” That’s what he says, my little boy with eyes of clearest blue. It’s Sunday morning, and we’re on our way to church. I look

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