Washington, Oregon and California. In school, I always took a desk on the side or in the back of the classroom. Thanks, Gary in Springfield Dear Gary, The need to sit in back or off to the side marks you as an observer, perhaps a writer. It isn't a problem.
Somebody has to sit there.
Yes, you could survive in Minnesota, if you wanted to. We have large bodies of water here. My husband's German family founded the small Lutheran church in their farm community in the late 1700s, although today his mother doesn't attend because the new pastor is insisting on Communion every Sunday. Thank You, Stephanie Dear Stephanie, First of all I believe in weekly Communion, and I also believe in forgiveness, and confession, and conversation, and while I respect hard-working, strong women, I do think that they have to accommodate the rest of us in some shape or form, just as we must accommodate them. Jesus, who inspired the Gospels on which Luther founded his reformation, has told us to love our neighbors as ourselves, and this revolutionary concept must guide us in dealing with strong, silent, Lutheran women.