Shortened lives marked by diabetes and despair

This link was posted on the friendsonboard blog this morning. I've gone back and forth between public, to private, to friends only, to editing my comment at the bottom of a couple of times today. It put me in a bit of a funk this morning, I guess, being overwhelmed contemplating the sheer numbers of needy folks in this world, not just on the Reservation. Anyway...

( Life on a Reservation )

Cookie Swap

this recipe is a friend's creation after multiple tweaks and has won a couple of ribbons at fairs

                          Bob's Chocolate Chips

  4 cups  Flour

  1  teaspoon  Baking Soda -- rounded

  1  teaspoon  Salt

  1  cup  Shortening -- butter flavored

  1 1/2  cup Brown Sugar, Packed

  1 tablespoon Vanilla

     1/3 cup Dark Corn Syrup

  2 Medium  Eggs

  12 Ounces  Chocolate Chips

  1 cup  Chopped Pecans

  Heat oven to 375 degrees.  Combine flour, soda, and salt.  Beat

  Crisco, brown sugar, vanilla, and corn syrup.  Beat in eggs.  Add

  combined dry ingredients.  Mix well.  Stir in chips and nuts.  Drop

  by rounded teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet.  Bake 11

  minutes, or until light brown.  Cool 1 minute on cookie sheet.

  Remove to wire rack. Makes approximately 5 dozen cookies.