Old Order Mennonnites

Reluctantly I placed my book aside to come back to America where I usually live. Sometimes, with the aid of the written word, I travel. When my sister-in-law gave me a book titled "In the Land of the Blue Burqas," I was instantly held captive by the gentle story telling of a woman who lived for more than five years in Afghanistan. Using a protective pseudonym, Kate McCord's adept pen and amazing ability with metaphors took me to a land of small, mud-brick houses behind the standard twelve-foot matching mud-brick wall. The yard may not have any blade or sprout of vegetation. It is by God's g...