Susan's Pendulum

Shame on me.... telling funny, embarrassing tales on my nephew. A bunch of my Illinois family was here yesterday and today, celebrating Chri...

The rejoicing should be commencing. The days are now getting longer, or so the scientists tell us. This normally brings much relief to th...

You know you're old when the popular "retro toys" of the Christmas season are things that were brand new (or not even availab...

The x-rays this morning were much better. Last week's x-rays showed two of the three lobes of Maggie's left lung collapsed, and the...

What a deal! Usually the best coupon or sale-price you can get on DVDs at Borders is 20% off. Even the employees can't get more than th...

I bought a Hoover Savvy vacuum cleaner in April. It has "wind tunnel technology." It is in for repairs under warranty for the FO...

No, not at the grocery store or Best Buy. Not long lines turning left out of the mall's parking lot. A long line for the confessional. ...

The doctor suggested on Thursday that Maggie blow up balloons. Those little exercise machines are boring to use. Coughing (as a lung exerc...

We've been going through Leviticus all year for Thursday morning Bible study. Pastor is just tickled with Kleinig's commentary on ...

A child is called into the kitchen to slice apples with the cool tool that the kids love to use. She has a hard time placing the apples on ...

I had always thought of Mary and Joseph arriving in Bethlehem and finding an overcrowded city, so that there was no room available for them....

We took Maggie to cardiology for her follow-up visit today. The good news is that her "conduit" (the new pulmonary artery) is work...

We're having company on Friday night. Rachel's boyfriend's family is coming over. Sounds good. At Didache on Monday night, Ra...

While Maggie was in the hospital, I skipped jogging eight times in a week and a half. After that, especially with the cold air and the clou...

We received a gift of Harry-and-David fruit in today's mail. As we're sitting around the supper table being silly and eating leftov...

Oh darn -- how do you talk about underwear without thoroughly embarrassing the owners of said underwear? Someone gave me a tip several years...

A while back, someone asked about kombucha mushrooms that had been in the refrigerator for several months. Sadly enough, I think I learned ...

Paul came home from work a month or so ago, a little worried by managerial complaints about the stockers, one of which is Paul. So he was h...

My men are spoiling me. My husband made dinner yesterday while I was running errands. One son made pizza and salad for dinner today. Anot...

When Beggars All ceased their blogging, one of the explanations given was the lack of time. Although the men enjoyed blogging, although th...