Susan's Pendulum

Of course, Paul's glasses would fall out of his pocket and be lost forever in a snowbank only one short week after we're no longer ...

When one of my children was just a little toddler, the end of his finger was cut off in a door-slamming incident which would forever give me...

All week, I've had something on my feet to deal with the germies in my chest. Sometimes I've put on vaseline as the "glue...

The zone LWML prayer breakfast was scheduled for our church this morning. Most of the attendees would be in their 60s to 80s, and most woul...

Since 3:00 yesterday afternoon we have been having "snow showers." The snow is deep. The roads are hazardous. Businesses, churc...

Site Meter is an online tool that tracks the visitors to a website, temporarily recording what city they're from, what time they check y...

Pastor tells us that one of the blessings of tribulation is that it incites us to pray. He says that people can go on their merry way, thin...

The insurance called today and told me that the van is a total loss. She defined that for me: it will cost more to fix than it's worth....

Several years ago, we dropped comp & collision on our old cars. It seemed silly to pay $300/year insurance on a car that was worth abou...

Last June we had reason to believe that there was a possibility Gary might get a call because his name was on two lists who were looking for...

I got a copy of the police report from the accident. The guy who ran the stop sign and came right out in front of me was not ticketed.

Self-esteem has gotten a bad rap among conservatives. The term (as used in America today) has come to encapsulate the whole idea that peopl...

There's not too much difference between McCain and Hillary on the issues. As Belling pointed out today, a liberal Republican can be ev...

Liz and Jeff tagged me for a quick and easy meme. The instructions are to grab the nearest book, turn to page 123, go down to the fifth s...

Out here in the country, I seem to have developed a pretty good sense of temperature, usually being able to guess within 5-10&#176 how w...

When You said, "Seek My face," my heart said to You, "Your face, Lord, I will seek." Hey, would you look at that!?! I a...

We have always left a bowl of dry food out for the cats, available to eat as they needed. There's nothing canned. If they want "w...

Whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you (John 16:23) . Loads of people will tell us that God will give us whatever we want: ...

Now and then we slash the top of the bread loaves after they're shaped into loaves and before the loaves rise. Why is it that that one ...

Oh my goodness! I called the nice, trustworthy, capable repairman at the body shop where I had the van towed to. He's not there. The ...