Susan's Pendulum

I started looking at TLH hymns last night, and which ones were kept in LSB, and which ones were changed significantly. One of the things th...

Milwaukee talk-show host Charlie Sykes is talking this morning about the girl who aborted her own baby. Early in the pregnancy, she could...

A man showed up at the door of the parsonage today, looking for "Pastor." That's not usual. Most people are looking for ...

Chris wrote -- "... which hymns I need to make sure to incorporate in the future. If I don't know which ones they are I just might ...

The trick of turning good gumbo into great gumbo is stirring the roux for a long long time. Ideally, I like to keep the roux cooking for 30...

Pr Stuckwisch's favorite line in the sixth book of Harry Potter is at the climax, when Malfoy is threatening to kill Dumbledore, and say...

I love it that I can fill an empty gas tank in my car for less than $30! My son is filling out applications for employment in Japan. It wou...

The video series Connections by James Burke is one of the things I require of the kids for their high-school work. I'm on my fourth or...

Maggie's been asking to make brownies for several days. This morning I finally relented. She looked at the recipe: "2 cups sugar....

Dad's home from the hospital! Wooohooo! He'll be a lot happier at home. Interesting how my mom and my sister-in-law were saying t...

The kids and I recently began reading Farewell to Manzanar , a book about the relocation of Japanese-Americans during WWII. The Wakatasuki ...

I was editing Pr Fabrizius's volume on Luke this morning. One of the questions was about the woman with the continual flow of blood spe...

The centipede infestation continues unabated. Neighbors have told us they're having the same problem, so it must be something with the ...

I put the chicken in to broil for dinner about 10 minutes ago. And now I'm smelling "church." This is weird. I wonder if th...

Surgery has been rescheduled for the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. That's seven weeks away. We've already been waiting eight weeks. B...

Pastor was talking about the curse of the fall the other day. The curse of the fall is the sorrow women have in motherhood and their desire...

Driving home from errands today, I didn't even notice the sign at the smut house around the corner. I noticed that I didn't notice ...

Writing is one of the things the kids are supposed to do for schoolwork. The older four didn't have as much trouble coming up with thin...

Surgery is canceled. The nurse will call later today and reschedule, probably for November they told us. The doctor did lots of heart tran...

The Rev Dr Stephen Wiest entered eternal glory on October 4, 2003. Three years ago today we buried him. "And devout men carried Steph...