Susan's Pendulum

Since Katie and Nathan have made all the personal phone calls and she is now announcing it on her blog, I guess it is okay for me to tell t...

Our standard and boring rice recipe is to cook the brown basmati in double the amount of water, throw in a little chicken Better-Than-Bouill...

We have the usual: cleaning and packing and making decisions. What caught me off-guard was the amount of cleaning. I thought the new house...

Andrew had another ear infection early this year. At that point, I wanted to write this post but didn't get around to it. A friend too...

Although it's the name of an education book (the philosophy of which I quite agree with!), that's not what I'm writing about he...

We gave them a whole bunch o' money. We signed the contract to give them a whole bunch more money. They gave us the keys. And the hou...

We've spent the last few days boxing up books at a fast-n-furious rate. And toys. And books. And games. And more books. When I went...

Thanks to recommendations from several homeschooling friends, we found a place to order appliance parts online with advice on installing th...

My friend Elephant's Child has been writing recently about her experiences fleeing leaving Africa and coming back to live in the Stat...

Gary has been working for four weeks. Last night, during his commute home, was the first time I wasn't worried about the drive. Such ...

While I was in town this afternoon, somebody came and put up a sign at church. There's a fund-raising breakfast at the fire department ...

I'm tempted to cut-n-paste the whole article and put it here, because I know most people don't click on links in blog-posts. But th...

The scene is the Garden of Gethsemane on the night of Jesus' betrayal. The big crowd of soldiers have come out to arrest Him. Jesus ans...

Why do so many contestants say they're doing this "for my kid"? Does it really benefit the kid for Mom or Dad to go to Hollyw...

In anticipation of yesterday's primary, we were treated repeatedly to one of Barak Obama's ads on tv. One of the class-warfare stat...

Gumbo for dinner today. I don't know what's up with pepper prices, but the red peppers were a dime cheaper than the green this wee...

For several years I've been struggling with a rash on a few fingers that has been slowly getting worse, to the point of being chapped an...

I hate gambling. I hate it. I hate trying to decide when is the time "to hold up, when to fold up, when to walk away, when to run....

I realize it's cold outside, but c'mon, when the thermostat is set at 68, it seems like it should be a little warmer than 62 in the ...

Maggie is DYIN' to start packing things into boxes. Multiple times a day, "Can we start packing now?" Paul brought home flat...