Susan's Pendulum

So the computer-duncehead has to backup her computer, wipe her hard-drive, and re-install everything from scratch. Hoo boy. So yesterday I s...

This week I could finally wear a dress to church on Wednesday night. For the preceding weeks, it had been cold. Cold in the house. Wicked...

A little boy comes home from first grade and tells his father that he learned about the history of Valentine's Day. "As Val...

If two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. For where two or three are...

"They say" that exercise helps with depression. Every now and then you get a chance --against your will-- to check that out with ...

A man walks into a post office one day and sees a middle-aged, balding man standing at the counter methodically placing "Love...

Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we may not perish? I had always thought this was a ...

In Bible class today, Pastor mentioned how Jonah was a picture of Christ in his own self , in that he was "dead" and then came ali...

The drunk was driving home after an evening at his favorite bar. A policeman pulled him over. The policemen asked the driver if he had bee...

For the last six weeks my computer problems have been growing. I have spent two full days now with a computer full of messes -- days when i...

A lawyer was driving much too fast down a country road. He ran a stop sign and broadsided another car. The lawyer jumped out of his car, r...

Maggie and I recently read Pollyanna . I'd never read it before; I only knew that calling somebody "Pollyanna" was usually us...

What do fishermen and hypochondriacs have in common? They don't have to catch anything to be happy. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ...

We're refinancing the house. Interest rates dropped low enough that it was clearly advantageous to us to pay the costs of refinancing s...

Our local newspaper is running some stories on how people in the area are coping with the recession and what effects the national economic c...

Julie, the blonde, was getting pretty desperate for money. She decided to go to the nicer, more affluent neighborhoods to look for odd jobs...

I love to sing. I don't have a very pretty voice, though. Just kinda "adequate," good enough to teach my kids to sing the li...

Sometimes we make jokes when someone's patience is tried: "Well, you prayed for patience, didn't you? What did you expect?...

Another tidbit that I came across while reading my tax instruction booklet. Check out the inside cover for a message from the tax commissio...

We pray in ["forgive us our trespasses"] that God would not look at our sins, nor deny our prayer because of them. We are neither...