Stradasoul

06/20/2026

The fireflies were fire-flying hard during my bike ride yesterday evening!

06/16/2026

Wandering around Peoria while attending the IAVAT Conference.

05/26/2026

More Ike in the news!

DECATUR, Ill. (WCIA) — A legacy project is in the works, thanks to more than 100 students at the Decatur Andreas Ag Academy. The students have been hard at work creating “Ike the Panthe…

05/09/2026

Great kids doing great things!

Students at the Andreas Ag Academy are building a larger-than-life panther for the entrance at Eisenhower High School.

05/03/2026

I had the prettiest date for the Kentucky Derby Party.

04/22/2026

Happy B-Day to the person who literally “makes everything beautiful”. Thank you for deciding to spend your years as my partner participating in ridiculous nonsense. I absolutely adore you! 😘

04/13/2026

Gratuitous bike pic after my work commute this morning (10’ steel panther for scale).

04/05/2026

Happy Zombie Jesus Day to all who celebrate. As I sit here on the curb at Casey’s for bike church and enjoy the cheesy sacrament, I realize on this 2nd highest of all Undead Holidays that I can see the shadow of my slice. If I remember my Bible correctly this means that when Zombie Jesus left his crypt this morning to raid children’s Easter baskets to search the hollow head of chocolate Easter bunnies for candied brains that he saw his shadow and returned to his tomb and we now have 6 more weeks of Lent. Those bacon cheeseburgers for the next 6 Fridays will have to wait!

03/28/2026

I know he’s made of steel but “Iron Ike” has such a nice ring to it. My kiddos can do such amazing things :)