Susan's Pendulum

For those of you who have wished to see what's backstage at APT , you may be interested to know that Facebook folks can become fans of A...

Working on the taxes, I'm reading through the 1040 Instruction Book. For 2009, a family (two parents, and one or more children) is poor ...

Some of you were lucky enough to hear one of my favorite talk-show hosts when he substituted for Rush this week. Mark has the solution to t...

The fourth petition: Give us this day our daily bread. God certainly gives daily bread to everyone without our prayer, even to all evil peop...

The pope dies and goes to heaven. St Peter welcomes him. "Everything heaven has is yours," he tells the pope. The pope asks, ...

When I married my husband, I knew he did not eat soup, he did not eat vegetables, and he would never never never eat peas. Well, over the y...

In this psalm, Asaph is working his way through Israel's history, showing God's faithfulness and Israel's rejection of His goodn...

Stolen from a Garrison Keillor tale: He was so ugly that the banks turned off the cameras when he came in the door. He was so ugly that, whe...

Lauri writes about her 3-yr-old's desire to commune. Joy too writes of her toddler's distress over not being communed. All my chi...

In Psalm 73, Asaph is talking about how things seem to go just swimmingly for the unbelievers. How come life is swell for those who sass Go...

A Lutheran joke I heard last weekend. But I'm not sure it works when written: Did you hear about the new WELS church in the next villag...

While growing up, I hated wool. It itched. Most colleges have PE requirements. One of the classes Philip considered taking was Winter Camp...

My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness and Your salvation all the day, for I do not know their limits. I will go in the strength of the L...

The square root of -1 asked pi, "Why can't you be more rational?" Pi retorted, "Oh, get real!" (Stolen from a t-shir...

Wisconsin people need to mark their calendars for February 17 and April 7 to go vote. Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson is up f...

I had just washed the van the previous week. But boy, with the thaw over the weekend, we were picking up some heavy-duty grime on the windo...

From Polly, New Drugs for Women BUYAGRA: Stimulant to be taken prior to shopping. Increases potency and duration of spending spree. MENICIL...

Not many of my pictures turned out. This is about the extent of what isn't too fuzzy or too dark. Katie's turned out much better. ...

A rather sizable snowman. Or snow tower. Or snow slug. Or something. Paul in his costume for the play. You put some eye-liner and lipstic...

I seem to be developing a knack for this. Yesterday we were visiting Paul and celebrated Transfiguration (1-yr series) and will be celebrati...