Susan's Pendulum

When the old water heater started leaking a year ago, the plumber who installed the new one told us that we should flush it once a year. He ...

I pulled out the pattern for the bridesmaid dress today and an old sheet. Maggie's size is going to require a significant amount of alt...

Satan wanted Jesus dead. Satan entered the heart of Judas Iscariot to betray Jesus. Satan wanted to destroy the Messiah. And yet, Satan al...

Farmer Carl wakes up and looks outside his window. There on his property he sees a dozen penguins. He can't believe his eyes and runs ...

Gethsemane means "oil press." If you've ever made cider or grape juice, or paper, you've seen what a press can do. There...

Society has certain expectations about what children should study, and that's what appears in textbooks. Unschoolers count on the fact ...

A dog walks into a bar and orders a beer. The bartender looks at him and says, "You're a dog, ain't you?" "Sure am,...

Who decided that O BJECT and SU BJECT should be so similar? It's hard enough to keep those words straight when you're an ADD moth...

Philip was turned down for a mortgage and so began looking at apartments. Then the loan officer found another mortgage company that would c...

We like comfort. We want to be rich, or at least keep our stuff. We want to hang onto our health and our happy family relationships. We d...

The son of the rabbi was doing terribly at Hebrew School. His parents paid for tutors. The boy took extra classes. He had no success. Fi...

When we went to church for prayers yesterday, we noticed that the timpani had been dropped off. And there will be brass and strings along ...

A customer in a bakery was observed carefully examining all the rich-looking pastries displayed on trays in the glass cases. A clerk approac...

Pastor has been talking the last couple of years about how there were messiah-figures all over the place in Palestine during Jesus' life...

In the 1970s, the "church amendments" were passed. These are laws (or regulations?) which protect medical workers from discrimina...

Girl Potato and Boy Potato had eyes for each other, and finally they got married and had a little sweet potato, which they called 'Yam...

The piano tuner came today. It's been a while. This was the first time the piano was tuned since we moved, so the tuner was new to us....

Our catechism portion this week is from the first verses of Romans 13, about how the government is God's way of keeping control in this ...

A business had expanded and moved to a bigger store in a busier part of town. The owner's friends decided to send him flowers for the g...

And those who passed by blasphemed Him, wagging their heads and saying, "Aha! You who destroy the temple and build it in three days, s...