Susan's Pendulum

Have you ever looked out of a hotel window, or a hospital window, or some other high-up-in-the-sky room, and noticed that, down below, there...

When we decided we were attending the Gerhardt symposium at the St Catharines seminary, we needed to figure out what else we'd do here. ...

I'm sitting in the laundromat. I like laundromats. You get the laundry done SO FAST. It's quiet, and you can read or blog or wa...

Ya leave the country. Nobody calls on the cell phone (which is on roaming anyway). Then in the space of three hours, we get three phone ca...

We enjoyed a grand time in Fort Wayne the last couple of days. We stayed with dear friends. We went to church at a place with kneelers and...

All year I look forward to the lilacs and the crab apples blooming. That week, I go out of my way to find things to do outside. Sometimes ...

The top headline in yesterday's newspaper was Your Jail Is Awful . And the quote from the consultant hired to analyze the situation was...

Two girls who both intended to wear my wedding dress. When Katie and Rachel were looking for Rachel's bridesmaid dress last summer, Kat...

Emily wrote a great piece last week about taking her children to a funeral. I remember getting taken to plenty of funerals when I was littl...

Maggie outgrew an elastic-waist skirt she loved. She was wanting another skirt. We looked in stores and found absolutely nothing that was...

What do you call it when you do two things at the same time? Most people would answer, "Multi-tasking." But a stay-at-home mom w...

It's nice when children take initiative. It's nice when somebody (who's not me!) decides to clean. It's nice to declutter....

"I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I do not forget Your commandments." Here's another place where i...

You know you're a homeschool mommy when you're taking your shower, and the bathroom door opens and a child yells "18 x 6 = 108?...

All that reviving . "Revive me according to Your word." "Revive me according to Your judgments." "Revive me, O L...

About ten years ago, Gary convinced me to try to do some writing and make some money off of it. I researched some possibilities and sent in...

This week I worked on reviewing our school goals, seeing what's been achieved, what needs to be made a higher priority, what needs to be...

We hear a lot about ethanol usage recently. They're even planning to build an ethanol plant in our tiny little township. Yesterday I m...

My friend Kathy forwarded an email to me a few weeks ago on the topic of recognizing signs of stroke . It's often hard to recognize whe...

Y'all probably wonder why I'm going on and on about Psalm 119. It's just that I hated it for so long. I'm such a legalist ...