Ruth Wakefield was in a hurry one day.  She was known for making amazing chocolate butter drop cookies.  The recipe was not one that could be completed in a hurry really, because chocolate squares had to be melted.  After melting the squares, she would then have to pour the melted chocolate into the batter before baking the cookies. Ruth had to make a choice.  She decided to just break the chocolate squares in chunks and place them into the batter.  Hot is hot, so the chocolate would melt on its own accord.  She was wrong.  When she pulled the cookies out of the oven, the chocolate remained in its chunks. …

I didn’t want to put a Christmas tree in my house, because I have a cat now.  Fitz loves anything that dangles.  And he loves to climb.  He climbs up his cat tower.  He leaps onto my table and couches.  He bats the cords on the blinds to watch them swing.  Christmas trees are great for climbing, and they have all of the dangling objects.  Nope…no Christmas tree this year. We have the tendency to put people in a box.  Again, when I say we, I’m talking about me.  I often think people don’t have the capacity to change.  I don’t expect much from people or of people.  I’m guarded.…

Sometimes a song that I haven’t thought of in forever will pop into my head.  Am I the only person that happens to?  I was traveling back home, and Shekinah Glory Ministry’s song, “Yes,” began to play in a loop in my mind.  If you’ve never heard it, go to YouTube and play it. Spoiler alert:  The choir’s only line is “yes.”  I take that back.  At times, they do echo the soloist.  The soloist does ad lib throughout the song, but she spends a lot of time saying “yes” as well.  Some of her lines were really permeating to me.  For instance, “Will your heart and soul say yes? …

This has been quite a week.  I may have mentioned before that I do contract therapy.  That means that if I don’t work, I don’t eat.  I was afforded an opportunity that requires me to miss a week of work.  And it didn’t come at a very convenient time.  I already work less days in the month of December because of Christmas and New Year’s.  I struggled, but I decided to skip out on work.  I can’t afford to not work, but I also can’t afford to miss this opportunity. With all that in mind, I realized that I had a doctor’s appointment on this past Tuesday.  Even though I…

How do people do life without cousins?  It’s a foreign concept to me.  As much as they get on my nerves sometimes, I love them.  And I feel like they’re very necessary. I have hundreds of cousins.  That’s not an exaggeration.  Between my mother, father, and stepfather, the numbers add up quickly.  I’m undoubtedly in more day to day contact with my cousins from my mother’s side of the family.  Someone asked me and Bible Study Cousin if we were first cousins, and she said “yes.”  We’re not.  We’re second cousins but in my family that doesn’t matter.  A cousin is a cousin is a cousin. So why do I…