Susan's Pendulum

I dropped Andrew off at drivers ed today, and then headed to the parsonage. The house had been emptied of all our belongings (except the re...

I happened to catch a portion of a talk-show on the radio this evening. The author of The Curse of 1920 was being interviewed. His claim ...

Housing is hard to come by at the local public university. We put down a housing deposit for Paul early last winter, knowing that he stood ...

Y'know, when there's "too much to do," sometimes you can keep your head on straight and just keep plugging away at the res...

The boys discovered something today. Mowing in the kettle-moraine area of Wisconsin takes a lot more physical effort than mowing in the f...

Last time I mail-ordered bulk spices, I also bought dried apples. They're so expensive in the store, and we like them so much. When t...

Bible class today was ostensibly on John 21. (Hey, we did get to it evennntually. We DID.) Earlier in the Gospels there is a story simil...

There were several big reasons that we began homeschooling. Most of those became far less important over the first couple of years, while o...

Curtain Call is a pretty cute little movie -- romantic comedy for a modern couple, with a pair of scrappy ghosts ( MacGonagall from Harry ...

With Earth Day last week, all the local libraries had displays of "green" books. Being a new home-owner, and having just left a h...

For Katie, for friends with large families, and for us old-folks who enjoy reminiscing about when the kids were little, go read Concordian S...

( Rachel is gonna hate this post.) There's a scene near the beginning of Beckett that made a huge impression on me. Now, ya gotta rea...

Today was the last day at Triune. Three people said a quick goodbye to me. One tried to give a fond farewell, but it was hard to hear her ...

Tell him "thank you." Pray for him. And listen when he talks. A living wage is nice. Sharing produce from your garden or meat f...

Oh dear. I have a problem. We ate leftovers and fruit and sandwiches about 2:30 when Paul got off work. I had no clue what we'd be do...

We started reading another Freddy book recently. (Reading aloud good children's literature is one of my best defenses against depressi...

Andrew and I briefly tooled around the neighborhood -- not taking out any mailboxes -- yesterday afternoon. Today while the clothes were at...

With moving there has been so much need to spend time sitting at the computer, reading. And that seems to draw a person away from Real Life...

Somebody brought a picture to Bible class this morning. Before prayers, it was passed around with the "explanation" that it was ...

Although I am not happy with the level of socialism promised to us at the 2004 Republican Convention (and too much of which has been enacted...