Susan's Pendulum

When I buy beef from a local farmer, I pay a certain amount for the hanging weight, and a certain amount to the butcher for processing. I h...

The new hymnal has changed some references that were in TLH. " Remission of sins" is a phrase that we are no longer very fond of...

Recently I was conversing with an acquaintance who was explaining to me how God wants His Christians to have physical health and material we...

The bookshelves are up. The books are unpacked. There's still a lot of putting-in-order that will need to be done with the books. But...

With the dish-drainer still back at the old house, I've been having problems washing dishes. Then I discovered that I could use the dis...

Started off at the laundromat, and the machine did NOT want to take my quarters. Good grief, when I can't even manage to operate a vend...

Oh, this is too fun! Jeff's blog directed us to a site that makes anagrams out of words. When I put in my name, I got nearly 5000 an...

My father-confessor's congregation began using the 3-year lectionary this past Advent. The congregation I'm a member of is on the h...

Bread crumbs and spilled salt and cotton lint show up a whole lot more on a black stovetop than on a white stovetop. Cats don't much app...

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 ...