Author Archives: marriedwithbees

About marriedwithbees

I am half of a husband and wife beekeeping team. In 2016, I left the corporate world to focus on things that matter: helping people, raising bees, tending the garden and playing with dogs.

Can I Make Peace With Christmas?

Christmas is my least favorite holiday.  There.  I said it.  As a child, I loved Christmas.  As an adult, my relationship with Christmas is more temperamental.  This post is one I wanted to write for a while but was afraid to write.  I thought, “Do you really want to fly that freak flag?”  I turned 50 this year, and there is something liberating in that.  You realize if you don’t start doing the things you are afraid of doing, you will die before they get done.  Listen up all of you members of the Mistletoe Mafia, not all of us feel that this is the most wonderful time of the year.     

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Honey Bee Homicide

Anthropomorphism is the term for when human characteristics are given to animals.  Humans love to project their humanity onto animals.  This is why people think their dogs want to be dressed in Halloween costumes and why once a year you read about a person who thought it was a good idea to jump into a zoo enclosure.  “The gorilla was just so cute and cuddly.  I didn’t think he would try to rip my face off!”  People do the same thing with honey bees.  Honey bees are viewed as industrious, peaceful, and happy creatures, but did you know that honey bees are capable of murder?

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