By Branden DesCarpentrie One evening, when I was teenager, my parents went out for the night.  Home alone without a car in central Illinois, I needed some entertainment.  So I headed to our utility room where, hanging in front of our shelves, was a real cork dartboard complete with metal tipped darts.  As I had […]

By Jen Powell The wind outside is whirling almost as much as all the questions in my head. Our evening news repeats the same gloom and doom as the morning newspaper.  The economy and the war against terrorism compete for top story. Unstable. Unsure. Unpredictable. I dislike those words and the feelings associated with them […]