Susan's Pendulum

Once upon a time, a homeschool mommy had to decide on curriculum in May.  June at the latest. You had to place your order by 4th of July to ...

Accurate measurements are important, right?  We're supposed to measure the coffee with a proper tablespoon or teaspoon, right? One day...

The pretty china.  The beautiful old quilts.  The crystal.  It's silly to hide it in a closet, unused.  But it's uncomfortable to us...

My class consisted of one [count 'em -- one] kid who was not yet ready for confirmation class with the pastor.  So during confirmation c...

This evening I noticed something beautiful in the sky.  Venus and Jupiter are very close together.  The computer tells me that this is the ...

Shhh: don't tell the computer or Big Brother.  I have figured out how to get NICE ads in the sidebar of my computer.  If you go shopping...

The previous post included things from the Old Days which were when my first baby was little, or not long before. This one has stuff that I...

I was always fascinated with "how things used to be." It kinda sorta freaks me out that some things are now seen as the Old Days ...

But a rotating fan gathers LOST of dust! I learned something about dust one day in confirmation class.  (That was not the pastor's p...

And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all...

Liz posted this picture yesterday of the competition between the fire departments.  For those of you who don't live in small towns, it...

I think it might be worse to watch somebody else make a mistake at work than to botch it myself. Almost half of our tellers are new in Jun...

More than 30 years have passed.  I still remember.  The other day some friends pointed me to an article on watching horror movies and oth...

As a kid, I remember going to Tenebrae service in the evening of Good Friday.  We were supposed to leave in silence.  At my home congregatio...

Our math textbook is from the early 80's. Maggie was doing a lesson on graphing. So there's a graph of TV-watching habits of the k...

My mom told the story of when she and my sister-in-law were Christmas shopping when my daughter Katie was 10 or 12. They ran across a very ...

It used to be that a price increase of a penny or two a gallon translated into a 2-5% price increase. Today, a 2-5% price increase is 10-15...

We had fire drills and tornado drills regularly at school. We even had drills to practice what we'd do in case of a nuclear attack. (I...

Back when I was young, you had to lick the postage stamps. Remember when they first came out with the peel-n-press stamps, and you had to p...

... grapes and watermelons had seeds. (It sure ain't easy to find seeded watermelons anymore. And seeded grapes show up at the store j...