A Barrel of Nelsons

We’re making cookies. Four kinds though two are almost like the same kind with different add-ons.
The two that are alike (ones a Shortbread Cookie with Orange and one’s a Cookie with Cranberries that’s almost Shortbready), Jeff got off some foody blogs that he reads.
We’re making the Thick and Chewy Gingerbread Cookie recipe out of The [...]

This is a post of links. The reason it is such is because I cannot bring myself to blog about Stephanie and Evelyn Bennett’s case. Not because I do not care. Not because my heart does not go out to the family. But because it brings up a lot of stuff inside me that hits [...]

Well I’ve let some things sit for a bit. And some other things.
While I wish I could tell you that all the lost contact was a computer glitch or something, I can’t. I can’t even say that we’re back in contact yet. That might take some brainstorming. I do know that we are not the [...]

I haven’t attended church in over a year. My faith has been rocky for at least a couple years more than that.
But something nagged at me to maybe consider attending again. And I talked to Jeff about it… and surprisingly enough we’re looking to possibly do just that.
Now of course we have to find a [...]

Warning: For at least a portion of this post I’m going to talk in “ideals.” Things that happen in worlds where life is fair, it never rains on your parade and nobody is really out there to double cross you. This is also the place where fairies and unicorns runaway to hide.
I took a risk [...]

I’m about to take one of the biggest steps I’ve taken in a looooong time (well in at least a year).
I’m quitting my job at Purdue. And I don’t actually have something new lined up. I have some possiblities but nothing solid.
I feel like I’m jumping off a cliff with a mystery backpack. Is there [...]

I’m writing this entry about someone I’ve never met.
Wade Steffey is a freshman in Aviation Tech at Purdue. He’s originally from Bloomington. He’s here on a full-ride academic scholarship. He’s also a National Merit Scholar and an Eagle Scout.
He hasn’t been seen or heard from since last Friday night.
Purdue has 40,000 students, but in some ways [...]