Susan's Pendulum

I love the sound when canning jars seal. Plink! I love the way the color of the jam turns from cloudy to ruby-red crystal when the sugar ...

The story tonight at VBS (also known as our "retreat on reconciliation") was the parable of the prodigal son. My favorite quote f...

Elephant's Child has a totally awesome quote from Walther about focusing on missions "versus" focusing on doctrine.

The nearby U-Pick farm has strawberries available. We've been out of strawberry jam for 5 months, and the natives are restless. (Ooooo...

From the Chicago Tribune : "Obama has said he opposes lifting the federal ban on offshore drilling. And on Friday he promised a morato...

Bender's catechesis was entitled Cain and Abel and the "Murder of God." Call me biased, but I thought it was the best presen...

Piotr Malysz spoke on "Humanity in the Image of God." This was a good lecture. It was deep. I wanted sometimes to hit the ...

Stem cell research was discussed last week at the catechetical symposium in Waukesha. There was one comment made in passing that I found qu...

One of the speakers pointed out that less than half of the doctors are actually in the American Medical Association. He suggested that this...

Boy, I don't know how the milk situation got away from us. But this morning we had four gallons that were more than a week old, and it ...

Mandatory reading: Jane's You Don't Look Like a Homeschool Mom . (She wrote this in response to an article about how the stereotyp...

In Psalm 116 we pray: O Lord, truly I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant; You have loosed my bonds. Maybe you...

Paul is supposed to turn in his immunization record to the college. He is also supposed to get an updated tetanus shot. After the reaction...

It's very hard to stain the naked deck (where Gary just turned all the boards over because the top side was so very weather-worn) when t...

At the old house, I painted with a semi-gloss or something even more shiny than that. I wanted the walls to be washable. Granted, it made ...

I don't understand how we pray that the Lord smash our enemies when we know our own sin and that we were enemies of God but that He has ...

Y'know what happens when you get a new septic system right when the "helicopters" are about done growing on the maples? The w...

Does Psalm 104:4 indicate that maybe the angels were created on the second day? The psalm starts with light (day 1) and then goes to the hea...

Eleven years ago we bought a 4-yr-old Corolla. She already had 122,000 miles on her. And she had an irreparable dent in her back bumper. ...

After news of the GM plant closing, the city I love(d) is dealing with more devastation. This time it's flooding. The paper has a var...