The World Surrounding Me

Obviously, I didn’t actually marry an axe-murderer, but we did catch this funny Mike Myers movie last night at the Regal Arbor cinema (a fun artsy theatre near our house). They’ve been doing a “retro rewind” series each Wednesday for a few weeks. Judging by the attendance last night and when we saw “Dr. No” [...]

I think I came up with the best Fantasy Football team name ever: “The Deadliest Catch.” I came up with it after Matt took “Mythbusters” (which is my favorite show). I’m actually rather pleased now that he did, so I could come up with something even better. The smackdown starts soon! I’m looking forward to [...]

I’ve had a few days off from work and have spent them catching up on sleep, doing a little house-cleaning (a very little!) and finishing some quilt projects. Finishing one of those projects required me to buy some fabric (I needed some purple fabric for binding — and purple is a color I just don’t [...]

My mom and I shopped for these fabrics while in Illinois on the Cornerstone trip. She apparently has a kit to make something out of the same fabric line. I grabbed just a few fat quarters and freehanded this design (while sitting at a show at Cornerstone). I’m not totally in love with it – [...]

Twice this week, I have tried new recipes made with masa. I realized that most of my extended family has probably never heard of it (funny that the midwestern US is pretty much covered in corn fields, but masa, a corn derivative, is basically unknown there). Masa is primarly used to make corn tortillas. Imagine [...]

This blog post comes to you from a coffee shop at a church in the Chicago suburbs. I’m here for a conference – today was a women’s leadership event, and the next two days are a general leadership event (which will be viewed by tens of thousands of people world-wide). I had a nice time [...]