Tag: Rae
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Chicken Jesus
From Rae:
Last summer in 2025, I traveled to Pennsylvania to visit my in-laws. Early in the morning before we left for the airport, there was a “small fire” in my chicken coop, which I had just moved my young chickens into. In a panic, I doused the fire, called my mom, and left for the airport.
My mom confirmed the chickens were alright… but I couldn’t stop thinking about them. That night I was up late, anxiety stricken, worried about my chickens. I had installed a webcam in the henhouse, but couldn’t see the chickens anywhere. I feared that they were all dead from smoke inhalation, or traumatized from the fire. It was the middle of the night and I didn’t know what to do, hundreds of miles from home.
Then something told me: reach out to Matthew
He went right over, reassured me they were ok, helped them into the henhouse and hung out with them as the sun rose
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People Who Love Me
Note: Our parents gave us each a hope chest one year. Rose went through the contents of hers and found this photo album
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Why 9 year olds don’t go to college
From Rae:
When I was in college, Matthew and our brother Zach came to visit me all by themselves, all the way out in California.
I wanted to give them a tour of the campus and show them where my classes were, so I brought them to the biology building and walked them around the classrooms and hallways. I looked away for a minute, I swear, and I heard a “woosh!”
Matthew had noticed a handle hanging from the ceiling in the hallway and did the natural thing… he pulled it. Turns out that was the emergency shower for people exposed to chemical irritants. About 30 gallons of water had poured out of the ceiling above him, and I looked on in shock.
Better yet, there was a seminar going on in the large classroom nearby. The professor rushed out after hearing the commotion and I’m sure we got those students out of class that day.
Matt, Zach, and I just walked away. Why would there be a handle in a hallway if you weren’t supposed to pull it? It’s the only time I ever saw that thing in action. I loved Matthew for a lot of reasons, but his curiosity inspired me to be bold
