You don’t often hear anyone using the phrase “bee in your bonnet” these days, reasonable since it goes back to 1600’s Scotland. Beekeepers wore large bonnets to shield themselves from bees. However, ...

People dressed as bees protest in London against the use of pesticides. Photo: Dan Kitwood/ Getty Images If you have a bee in your bonnet about something, you are obsessed with it and can't stop ...

Modern environmentalism rose to ascendancy on opposition to pesticides, specifically DDT. “If the environmentalists win on DDT,” Environmental Defense Fund scientist Charles Wurster told the Seattle ...

The 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee is a Super Bowl of American academia, a place where 12-year-olds who can spell ophthalmoplegia are TV stars and spelling judges are hounded for autographs. -- ...

I didn’t mean to alarm my husband, but I’m afraid he came home to one, two long white gloves, my beekeeping veil, my bee suit abandoned on the lawn. When Michael arrived, he clomped up the kitchen ...

There's no bee in my bonnet! Though I've slammed bunny decor on this blog, when I was a kid, I lived for Easter--and not just because of the basket overflowing with Cadbury mini eggs and stomachache ...

Lions Gate Films has teamed with Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner’s 2929 Entertainment to co-finance and distribute “Akeelah and the Bee.” Pic, to star Laurence Fishburne and Keke Palmer, concerns an ...

WASHINGTON — Call me naive – I’ve been called worse – but it never occurred to me that Roseanne Barr’s firing would be viewed by some as a political statement. Alas, it seems I’m a mere babe in the ...

If only I had a bee in my bonnet — a real one. Not finding any in my garden as I ready it for spring planting puts one there, symbolically speaking. The fruit trees and strawberries are in bloom.