Susan's Pendulum

Last night I was filling out a survey for some research on VCFS and its effects on the person, the caregiver, the family, and the community....

Driving through the country is a lovely, luscious, restful thing! My plan on Friday was to drop off Maggie with my folks, having met south o...

Driving Paul to college last Friday, we happened to see a road sign for "WARNING: Deer Crossing." Sitting between the road sig...

Back at the parsonage, we've watched the annual robin wars. The males come back in spring a few weeks before the females. The males ha...

I love the picture book The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton. It's a story about a little house in the country, surrounded by daisi...

At the post office today, I learned something new. If I had an unused stamp that was attached to a self-addressed stamped envelope that a b...

They're building a huge new subdivision in the village near us. It is adjacent to Andrew's paper route, and we've been watching...

When I was a little girl, there were places I could go. Places far far away from home. There was the playground: it was three blocks away!...

Last night Gary and I watched To Kill a Mockingbird . I had an ADD attack and noticed something that's somewhat beside-the-point in the...

The doctor needs me to go to the hospital for some tests. She couldn't get me in to the local hospital today. But tomorrow I have to b...

The line in the bank yesterday was long. I'm not used to being there on a Friday afternoon or Saturday morning, and the crowd there the...