Melissa Richeson

Spring has sprung! With April showers promising May flowers (and summer vegetables), now is the perfect time to plan and plant a garden with your family. The calendar tells us that April is National Garden Month and Earth Day falls on April 22nd. But there are other, more worthwhile reasons to get out in the garden together.

Dear Medi-Share,

According to the store shelves full of plastic grass and chocolate bunnies, Easter season is well underway. But for the Christian, Easter is more than dying eggs and filling baskets. It’s an annual reminder of the eternal hope we have because of Jesus’ resurrection.

With finite time and money, we’re all forced to make choices in how we spend our resources. Will we choose to allocate our resources to material goods or to experiential events?

As I lay back on the ultrasound table, I felt a peaceful sense of familiarity. Of course, I was excited, but I’d been through this before with my two sons, now five and three. So I knew what to expect at this 12-week visit: my husband and I would get our first look at the little one growing in my belly. Our newest blessing.

As the post-pandemic economy continues to shift, more laborers are turning to freelance, or gig, work, and more companies are outsourcing their work to freelancers.