Correct me if I’m Wrong…or Don’t

“Being right doesn’t show you care about their feelings.” This was the advice I overheard one teen give to another during a discussion about whether you should correct faulty thinking when someone is sharing their heart. Sometimes it’s hard to know when to set someone...

Good for Pigs, Not for People

Wallowing is not a pretty word. Quite the opposite, as it evokes images of pigs rolling around in mud. It lends itself to filth. However, for many animals, wallowing is essential to their well-being. They get down in the muck and coat their bodies to stay cool and...

Learn and Do

Shout out all the people of the world who aren’t satisfied with pat answers to their burning questions. I admire those who keep digging deeper and deeper until they’ve uncovered more answers than the rest of us care to know. Like why we have to go to the...

delicately indestructible

I only recently learned about the existence of Prince Rupert’s Drops. Probably because I lean more toward Biology than Physics, which my physics professor would attest to. These strange little marvels are formed when molten glass is dripped into cold water, cooling so...

hold your friends up

I’ve been doing an arm workout that involves holding them out at shoulder height for four hours. Not really. It only feels like four hours because of the burning in my shoulders after the first ninety seconds. It’s only seven minutes total, and they’re the longest...

failure is not an option

Yesterday my husband asked me to re-hem his suit pants. It’s an easy enough task on the sewing machine, but it wasn’t cooperating. The thread became such a tangled mess that what should have been a ten-minute repair turned into over an hour of troubleshooting, trying...