On the way home from school recently, my little girl asked me, “Mommy, isn’t pink a girl’s color?” “Why do you ask,” I responded. She proceeded to tell me how a boy had worn a pink shirt to school, and she’d asked him why he wore pink. “Did you genuinely want to know why, or…

Don’t engage with the entitled. That was my thought yesterday as I watched a heated exchange in the drive thru of a fast food restaurant. I had just received our order after 18 minutes of feeling stuck in the line, quietly saying to myself, “So much for ‘fast’ food.” The altercation involved two other patrons…

For the last two nights I have managed to wake myself up around 2:00 a.m. compliments of my hand scratching my swollen foot before I am awake enough to stop it from fighting with the histamines that are fighting with the melittin from the bee venom in my body. 🐝 + 🦶 = 😣 Like…

As we headed out to pull four frames of honey from our beehive, my husband and I couldn’t have been further from our polar opposites in our personalities. I was fully dressed in my bee suit, ready to follow him across the pasture to collect our sweet reward for the first time after a year…

Paul Harvey used to sign off his radio shows with the words, “Now you know…the rest of the story.” Proverbs 18:17 is a great filter for all things we hear and for reminding us of the need to get “the rest of the story” when we are told stories. It reads, “The one who states…

Earlier this week, I saw a lady crossing the road as I was driving home. On one arm she was balancing a bag full of leftovers from the restaurant kitchen where she works. On the other arm she was cradling a large jug of tea. In her hands she was holding a few small other…

Pastor Marcus Bellamy kicked his “How to Study the Bible” class discussing the compilation of the Bible and different translations. Highlights from the lesson are listed below. *Bible translation entails reproducing the meaning of a text that is one language (the source language), as fully possible, in another language (the receptor language). *The original (source)…

This evening, I volunteered to put together some food trays for an event a friend was having tomorrow. I already knew what I needed. I knew exactly where in the department store to go. I walked into the store on a mission, only to discover the shelves of plastic trays I was looking for first…

Earlier this year we took on five baby chicks 🐣. It seemed like a great idea in the moment. Before it was time for them to move out of their cardboard box in the garage and into their coop, we had lost two of them. As the remaining trio 🐓 🐓 🐓 grew older, we…