Ira Wagler’s Followers (80)

Ira Wagler

Born

Tillsonburg, Canada

Website

http://www.irawagler.com/

Genre

Memoir

edit data

Ira Wagler was born in the small Old Order Amish community of Aylmer, Ontario. At 17, frustrated by the rules and restrictions of Amish life, Ira got up at 2 am, left a note under his pillow, packed his duffel bag and left. Over the course of the next 5 years, Ira would leave and return home numerous times, torn between the ingrained message that abandoning one's Amish heritage results in eternal damnation, and the freedom and possibilities offered by the "English" world. Upon becoming a Christian at age 26, Ira left the Amish for good. He is currently general manager of Graber Supply, LLC and Pole Building Co. in Lancaster County, PA.

...more

151 posts
Ira Wagler's Blog

Ira Wagler isn't a Goodreads Author (yet), but they do have a blog, so here are some recent posts imported from their feed.

Vagabond Traveler: Of Age and Time…

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

—Thomas Wolfe

*******************************************************************

Well, itâs been a while. More than a while since I posted my last blog. It wasnât random. There were reasons. And I had no clue back then, of what all was coming at me like a freight train. Guess itâs just as well I didnât know

Combine Editions
Ira Wagler’s books

Average rating: 3.4 · 13,800 ratings · 1,446 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Growing Up Amish 3.40 avg rating — 13,642 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Broken Roads: Returning to My Amish Father 3.70 avg rating — 145 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Growing Up Amish: A Memoir by Ira Wagler, Adam Verner (Goodreads Author) (Reader) 3.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Growing Up Amish PB by Wagler Ira (2011) Paperback liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Growing Up Amish Lib/E: A Memoir by Ira Wagler, Adam Verner (Goodreads Author) (Reader) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Way It Was: True Life Amish Stories 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Way It Was: True Life Amish Stories 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by Ira Wagler…

Quotes by Ira Wagler (?)

“As I would come to discover later in life, one shouldn't be condemned for simply craving freedom.”
― Ira Wagler, Growing Up Amish

7 likes

“A mental choice, absent a real heart change, is no choice at all. We couldn’t force ourselves to be something we were not. That just couldn’t happen. And it didn’t.”
― Ira Wagler, Growing Up Amish

tags: amish, christianity

3 likes

“And therein lies the paradox that would haunt me for almost ten years: the tug-of-war between two worlds. A world of freedom versus a world of stability and family. A world of dreams versus a world of tradition.”
― Ira Wagler

2 likes

See all Ira Wagler's quotes »

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
Reading with Style: SU11 Reading w/Style Completed Tasks - Summer 2011	300	241	Aug 31, 2011 09:09PM
Fans of Amish Fic...: Rachel's 2011 Reading Challenge	86	86	Dec 12, 2011 12:45PM
Avoca Book Club: Iowa Books	14	24	Feb 04, 2012 10:01AM
Reading with Style: WI 11-12 General Questions & Answers	151	127	Feb 26, 2012 01:59AM
Bookworm Bitches : November 2012 Bitchin' Biography Suggestions	38	142	Sep 15, 2012 08:45PM
One Million Pages...: Shay's 1,000,000 pages	752	294	Oct 05, 2012 11:57PM
The Seasonal Read...: Fall Challenge 2012: Completed Tasks - DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS IN THIS TOPIC	2291	756	Dec 28, 2012 03:29PM
Challenge: 50 Books: Tiffani Tore Up 2012! (100 books and beyond!)	149	175	Dec 31, 2012 07:32PM

More…

Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Ira to Goodreads.