Susan's Pendulum

This sound filled the air. "What is that?" About the time I began to suspect it was a tornado warning, Paul walked in the door,...

Two months ago, Pastor Petersen wrote about how it is good to be a pastor , how it's a good job with many blessings. Gary and I had bee...

There's a problem that comes from learning about nutrition and healthy eating. And there's a bigger problem that comes from actuall...

When there aren't enough calls to go around when it comes time for placing the graduates of the seminary, that's gotta be pretty dis...

I am Jesus' little lamb. (Hey. Jesus is the Lamb of God. We are lambs. We look like Him.) Ever glad at heart I am, for my Shepherd gent...

Jane recently wrote about her garden, and Glenda wrote in response about her farm market and her neighbors who share. I never used to enj...

For nearly 20 years we've been having dinner mid-day. The main task of the morning was getting dinner ready. Of course there might als...

We watched a great movie tonight. Even though I'd felt rather down in the dumps for most of the day, this was an interesting story and...

Most of my readers aren't going to care, but a few will. The GM plant in Janesville is closing. If it weren't for the church situat...

One of the churches in town had a sign for a few weeks that said Church parking lot for members only. Trespassers will be baptized. Now, if ...

There are certain women you look up to, certain women you want to be like "when you grow up." They are fun. They tell good stori...

It was a long drive -- to Fort Wayne yesterday morning and back again this afternoon. But it was a wonnnnderful weekend with so many people...

Gary got a laptop computer from Best Buy three years ago. Three years and three days, to be precise. The extended warranty expired three d...

When I was little, I would spin around and around and around in the living room until I got so dizzy I fell over. I loved to get so dizzy t...

The plumber spent Wednesday morning fixing a plethora of leaks around here. Oh, what a wonderful man!! So when he's packing up his fin...

More than 17 years ago, Gary had made the decision to leave Wautoma. We were making our first trip to the new home, to visit, to check out ...

I have been trying to finagle a time to get to Woodmans, and it's just not working out. It's so far away, and the gas is so expensi...

Janelle brought to my attention that the nutrition-factoid page I'd linked to previously has been abandoned. The information is no long...

Site-meter tells me that my 50,000th visitor was this afternoon. Wow! Thanks for reading, y'all. :-)

Oh my goodness. Techno-phobe Extraordinaire (that'd be me, by the way) just signed up for online banking and paid a bill online for the...