Lucinda J. Kinsinger

As a preteen, I picked up a pen pal from Ghana. She told me how she was trying to save money for college. “We don’t go to college unless we have a purpose for it,” I remember writing back. We being conservative Mennonites and purpose being a vital occupation like a doctor or a nurse.

I don’t remember that anyone told me this. I picked it up from observation and a general sense that shimmered in the