by Eddie Pipkin Photo by Pipkin My son purchased an Advent calendar for us. It’s a Lego botanicals Advent calendar, and each day there is a decorative box that contains a bag of tiny plastic pieces and a slip of instructions for assembling them, resulting in a lovely flower or succulent. It’s fun. [...]
By Eddie Pipkin Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay I was on a cross-state, multi-day bike ride last week, and it was an excellent laboratory for appreciating thoughtful design. As I rode on numerous bike trails and made it safely across dozens of pedestrian crossings, there were several confounding examples of bad design, numerous [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image generated by Google Gemini All ministry folks everywhere are now rolling full force into the busy-busy season with a calendar loaded with events and with everyone churning away planning and executing performances, special gatherings, seasonal service opportunities, and worship offerings filled with visitors. It’s a lot! And we are [...]
by Eddie Pipkin I cannot for the life of me tear open the top of a reusable bag without mutilating it. I have never had this skill, the proficiency to rip things open along the dotted line. I destroyed every pasteboard milk carton at elementary school lunch. I mangled every tear-out test sheet. Even with [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay If you followed the ongoing nationwide recall of baby formula, piled on top of the interruption of SNAP benefits, you know that there was a crisis at hand for parents with limited resources. You may also have followed the news reports that one independent [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image by Ray_Shrewsberry from Pixabay We want to get better at everything we do, so we’re susceptible to grand plans for change. Audacious goals can fuel a surge of energy around new habits and revised approaches. But such a flurry of activity can flame out, sometimes spectacularly, sometimes with a [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image by briankapeesh from Pixabay If you stayed up late to watch game three of this year’s World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays, you were in for a doozy. The contest tied a record by going for seven hours and lasting 18 innings. That’s [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image by Kate Cox from Pixabay I was doing some shopping last week when I picked up a carton of eggs from the case and realized that one was broken. What does one do? Put it back right where you found it (not my problem)? Put it back in the [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image by neufal54 from Pixabay Apologies if you eagerly awaited the arrival of this blog last week, because there wasn’t one. I was on a cruise with the family, and while I had initially planned to write last week’s blog in advance so that it could be published while I [...]
by Eddie Pipkin Image by Александра from Pixabay I was riding along with a ministry friend last week, talking about all the good work he has been up to, and the conversation – as it inevitably does – turned to the one volunteer who was gumming things up and driving everybody crazy. We [...]
