Category: Stephen Bishop
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Boy vs. Brainpower
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Stephen Bishop The streams have crossed. For once in the last month, my ability to generate enough mental brainpower to write has exceeded my son’s ability to mentally exhaust me. Four-year-old boys…
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Sugar, Sugar
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Stephen Bishop I try to live and let live, but I draw the line on people who put sugar in grits. Just last week I learned that our new county 4-H agent…
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Directional Discourse
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! Directional Discourse By: Stephen Bishop Not to brag, but I may be one of the only humans on Planet Earth capable of admitting my inability to navigate in the right direction. Yep, I’m…
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A Tough Crowd
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Stephen Bishop Somewhere in the crevices of my brain, I have repressed the memories of my college public speaking class, which for extreme introverts like me is a class that ought to…
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Old Broken Things
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Stephen Bishop Opposites attract. My wife and I are verified proof of that. Look no further than our cleaning habits. As a child, I learned early on that shoving toys under the…
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A Lament for Language
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Stephen Bishop After years of working at the agriculture office, I have come to realize that agriculture is ground zero for jargon and its fallout on effective communication. Jargon is everywhere. Once,…
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To Bravely Run Away
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Stephen Bishop My dad is not a beekeeper, but that has never precluded him from odd behavior. One of my earliest memories is of my dad trapping a honey bee under a…
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No Honey Needed
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Stephen Bishop After a few years of writing a monthly humor article for a beekeeping magazine, you begin to exhaust your ability to generate material, and you have to rent a heavy-duty…