Susan's Pendulum

Forty is the old age of youth. Fifty is the youth of old age. Yes. a French proverb found in Jan Karon's  "A Continual F...

When a teenager asked Pastor during the quiz today, "Can you read question 3 again?" he grinned and winked at the adults in the ro...

Chapter 10 of To Kill a Mockingbird starts with the line: Atticus was feeble: he was nearly fifty. Then the paragraph goes on to explain ...

When all the contents of a house have to GO [due to down-sizing or moving to a nursing home or because of death] ... the stuff has to go som...

So, I anticipate seeing Facebook posts and blogposts about the wonderful dinners y'all ate and the fun things you did to celebrate.  Our...

I think those Russian women had it figured out.  They got old and wore their babushkas.  Who would see their thinning hair turning grey?  It...

Maggie and I decided to take Gary to Discovery World before our membership runs out.  I love the aquarium there.  Things I noticed: ~ I h...

Do you scan the bookshelves of people you're getting to know?  When you're visiting a friend , do you check out the front of the ...

Not like I wear make-up very often.  But I did want to look a little special for Gary's Christmas party at work on Saturday.  I might...

As my mom's health began taking a turn for the worse last year, she mentioned one of her regrets.  She says she wished she'd done mo...

Oh, they tell us not to give a kid a cookie to cheer him up.  They say it's bad to find comfort in food.  Depressed?  Don't you dare...

In theory, if you've already been through something bad once, you should know that you managed to survive it. Then why is it that the p...

Maggie connived me into watching an episode of Psych with her. ( Bad Maggie! Naughty Maggie! Bad girl!) (Boy, it seems I have no powe...