Susan's Pendulum

A year ago, little Frederick was here visiting us for a few days. He was about 14 months old at the time. He graciously brought along his ...

This week I picked up my vacuum cleaner from the repair shop again . This is the sixth time it's been repaired under warranty since I b...

I had one of those "homeschool mommy" attacks on Sunday morning, where you get all aflutter over a teachable moment and just gotta...

that the cat has been using the litter box instead of going outdoors. And worse yet, so cold that the cat is actually playing with a ball of...

Well, this will teach me to get up early and get going on the week's errands! I figured I'd leave bright and early, let the kids ge...

The NY Times ran an article yesterday on the uniform national ID card . The thing I find most astonishing about this issue is the fight bet...

My husband is doing his work in the living room today. He has been complaining about the cold over at church. Okay, I can understand that....

My friend Polly linked to a humorous and informative blog on nursing. (No, Heidi, not your kind of nursing. The "feeding babies"...

What happens when the government needs to collect more taxes? There are two economic opinions on how to achieve this. The obvious answer is...

I went to bed last night after the furnace had turned off, and it was 58 in the bedroom. A little cooler than normal, but not too bad. But...

The stories in this week's Congregation at Prayer are on prayer. Yesterday at Matins, we were reading and discussing "The Centuri...

I was talking to a good friend who's a college prof. He expressed frustration over the number of papers turned in that are plagiarized....

The things that go through a do-it-yourselfer's mind when she's in the kitchen.... There was all that hoopla in the 80s about the ee...

Our ISP quit hosting webpages and neglected to tell us of the address change of the new server. Apparently my husband's site for the ex...

One of the legacies that [the Rev Dr] Steve Wiest handed down to us was how to see Protestant hymns through Lutheran eyes. Pr Wiest showed ...

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...

One of those church-dinner fundraisers is tonight. Because of a time-conflict with my part-time job, I didn't volunteer to work at the ...

With all the people who live here, a lot of different music gets played and a lot of different noise is made. I'm getting old enough an...

Just wanted to mention that my husband took the dive into blogging this week.

Some people listen to their Walkmans or their iPods when they exercise. Me? I'm weird. Sometimes I drag along my clunky old tape-reco...