Susan's Pendulum

This morning my husband and I attended a workshop at the hospital. The social workers annually have a lecture on planning for the future fo...

In Didache this week, we read the parable of the prodigal son. At the end of the story, the older brother resented the party for the younge...

The terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day on Monday caused me to wake up Tuesday morning with a cold sore. It's right in the middle...

The sweet potatoes leaked sweet juice out of their foil-wraps today while they were baking. I could've left the oven sticky and messy, ...

Maggie saw the cardiologist today for a follow-up to surgery. Apparently I had misunderstood how well her lungs were doing last time; the l...

Nanny McPhee is another movie we watched recently. It's got Emma Thompson, and we like her a lot too. (Gee, it seems we're on a j...

Last night we settled down with a movie we'd never heard of, while I worked on paying bills and getting a month's worth of budgeting...

Whine warning! Whine warning! Look out below! Whine warning! I was feeling sorry for myself last Friday because I had to miss a party wit...

When I wrote something last month about the Sacraments and the preaching being the thing that "makes us good," there were some ob...

My 12-yr-old doesn't usually watch Blues Clues anymore. And she's pretty much over Teletubbies. We were still watching Mr Rogers l...

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...