Category: Odds and Ends

ShareTweetPin So you had a beautiful wedding. Maybe bought a house, and you might even have a cute kid or two. Everything was going as planned. It was all falling into place. You read great marriage books, you asked for advice, you made it through premarital counseling. Even the part when you try to convince the therapist or pastor that you hardly ever fight, and you are sure there is enough chemistry to keep sex from becoming a chore. But there is something that feels off. You never imagined this…

A new fingerprint technique can detect traces of cocaine on human skin. From just a simple fingerprint, the technique is “smart” enough to tell whether someone has consumed the drug or simply handled it – even after someone has washed their hands. Reported in the journal Scientific Reports, a team of researchers detail a method that can detect cocaine and benzoylecgonine, a chemical that cocaine breaks down into by the liver, in fingerprints using an analytical chemistry technique called Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry. “A fingerprint is a great way to test…

ShareTweetPin “I Never Knew Being A Mother Would Be So Hard For You… Hi, my name is Kate and I am 36 and I’m having a serious case of lost identity. Or maybe it’s a midlife crisis. Or a little post-partum depression. Or maybe I’m just tired, overweight and mentally drained. Who knows which one. I have three boys, a husband, a home, and a job I love. I am beyond blessed. I have devoted my life to the humans in my life. And again, most days, I am happy…

ShareTweetPin By Billy Hallowell  Abortion is one of the most contested and debated topics in America, but there’s a facet of the discussion that doesn’t often get a great deal of attention: abortion survival. The media tend not to feature abortion survivors like Claire Culwell, a woman whose story has in recent years captivated the pro-life world. WATCH: See 8 Powerful Pro-Life Movies on PureFlix.com Culwell, who will soon participate in the inspirational “She Lives Out Loud” online event for women, became a pro-life speaker and advocate after learning 10…

ShareTweetPin I got the answer wrong when the seminar presenter asked what the silent marriage killer was. Would you get it wrong? Just after my wife and I got married, we attended a seminar on aiding the rehabilitation of human trafficking victims, particularly those trafficked for sex. (I won’t get into all that…that’s another story for another day.) In one of the presenter’s talks, he asked the audience what the silent marriage killer was and the biggest cause of divorce was. Since I had just been through premarital counseling, I…

The shade! Goodness!!! Just when we think the feud between the past and current loves of Justin Bieber‘s life is completely over, someone breaks the ceasefire. This time it was Hailey Bieber, who posted a quote to her Instagram Story which seems very much to be a very purposeful slap in the face to the woman many fans still consider to be Justin’s OTP, Selena Gomez. She posted: “A person in 2 months could make you feel what a person in 2 years couldn’t. Time means nothing, character does.” Then there’s an attribution to…