Susan's Pendulum

What's the recipe for a "Honeymoon Salad"? Lettuce alone. No dressing.

There must be something on the Y-chromosone that drives a person to vacuum the vehicle before taking it on a trip. Those without Y-chromoso...

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. Sorry, Karin! :...

Three babies have died in the last six weeks in Milwaukee. They were sleeping with someone instead of sleeping in a crib. The city is now ...

Jesus said to them, "O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!" And beginning at Moses a...

For the Life of the World arrived in today's mail. Most of it was, in one sense or another, connected to apologetics . One of the aut...

Yesterday's forecast told us that we were supposed to get snow all day today. IT IS APRIL 21st! Surely it would just be snow in the a...

Finished a page of grammar. "Shall we put that away now?" Kid says no. NO? Really? "Can we do another page, Mom?" ...

We were reading John 20 for morning prayers today. It's really caught Pastor's interest this year that Magdalena mistook Jesus for ...

I know that we aren't supposed to do things for others and expect thanks for it. We "do" to serve them, not to be appreciated...

At the Easter Vigil, we hear the story of Shadrach, Meschach, and Abednego. When they were tossed into the fiery furnace, who died? Not th...

At the Easter Vigil, we hear the story of Noah and the story of the Three Young Men in the Fiery Furnace. In the litany, we pray, From all c...

I know that wasting a dollar here and a quarter there adds up. I know that just a little snippiness between the kids, a hint of back-talk, a...

There was nearly a yard of fabric left over from the bridesmaid dress. Maggie wanted it to become a matching shawl or a shrug to wear in ca...

I discovered that, when sewing, I need my reading glasses far more than I do when I'm reading. The dress turned out a bit snugger than ...

For four glorious days last week, we had multiple services per day, and long services. What was offered averaged out to about 4 hours of p...

There was ONE neighbor who pushed a lawnmower. Everyone else owns riding lawnmowers. Yesterday that one push-mower neighbor was giving his...

I haven't felt much like blogging. I guess the Triduum and Easter was too intense. (And yes, for you grammarians, that is supposed to ...

I expected that my son, now age 7, would begin having doubts about Santa Claus. Sure enough, one day he informed me, "Mom, I know some...

Just some random thoughts and observations: O Sacred Head (stanza 4 of LSB 450) Thy lips have often fed me with words of truth and love. T...