Susan's Pendulum

After a gazillion times of watching High School Musical , we decided to try making "the perfect creme brulee." Well, not the perf...

I am SO far behind on reading my Backwoods Home Magazines. But I was doing a little skimming during Maggie's swimming lesson recently....

He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had placed among men, and delivered His strength into captivity, and His glory into the ene...

Okay, maybe this is a no-brainer for y'all, but I was just tickled when I noticed this today. Supposedly we were studying John 13 in Bi...

Whole-food vitamins seem to me to be a much better way to get supplemental nutrients into a body than using the chemical vitamins so often f...

Last month, a synodical representative met with the members of our church to discuss the difficult situation in which we find ourselves [mon...

Our area had a hard frost on September 14. My tomatoes made it through. Here it is, six weeks later, and I'm still getting fresh garde...

We distracted ourselves from life and did something totally uncharacteristic tonight. We just up and went to a play. I wanted so desperate...

They say that people that lived through the Great Depression learned to make do, but that for decades afterward it had an effect on the way ...

I assume most homeschooling families would respond in the same way I would. But I'm not sure about non-homeschooling families. Would yo...

Once upon a time we were at a bed-n-breakfast, and Dr Scaer was there too. At breakfast, he was politely making conversation and asked abou...

A week and a half ago, Disney's High School Musical arrived at our house as part of our Blockbuster subscription. It's been watche...

There were two house blessings on Thursday. Pastor forgot to make handouts for us to follow along. So theoretically we weren't suppose...

"We have personally selected a small group of alumni to participate in the 'listening process'" for an "initiative...

Much of "Jesus, Grant That Balm and Healing" is about avoiding temptation or overcoming temptation by meditation upon His cross an...

There are some money problems at church. A survey was sent out (I'm not sure by whom) to the members of the congregation, asking for su...

The tag-game running around [ha ha!] the blogs these days is to tell seven true things about yourself. Laura and Melynda and an amusing o...

If somebody ran a marathon on Saturday, it'd be goofy to try to go cut and haul firewood the next day. If somebody had been sick and fe...

I was awakened this morning at 6:30 by the phone ringing. Philip was stranded and needed rescue. When he was car-hunting, it seemed to me l...

And supper being ended, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray Him, Jesus, knowing tha...