Ordinary Days

          Imagine raising six spirited kids on a grass farm. Today. That''ll test any mama''s strength. Dorcas Smucker and her brood live out their days in full view in this collection of musings—picking blueberries while watching for bears, hoping for angels driving off the nearby freeway, moving into the "thousand-story house." Then there was the four-week road trip, which, Dorcas says, "My sist...