Susan's Pendulum

Then, when the earth was first poised in mid space, Then, when the planets first sped on their race, Then, when were ended the six days empl...

The guys went strawberry picking with me this morning. One pie and five batches of jam later (37 half-pint jars) I am way past ready for be...

I've been thinking about the post over at Dark My Road on keeping track of all the things there are to do, and how we become anxious ov...

When we were visiting my folks and Katie in January, whenever I'd wake up in the middle of the night, before I had my bearings I'd b...

I'd never had migraines until this spring when I started getting some pretty awful "ice pick" headaches. (Or at least, I'...

Older people say they don't want to be a burden on their children. Ill people try to do things for themselves instead of admitting the...

So much for growing organic veggies.

Some small strips of cilantro, parsley, and basil are now planted between some of my baby berry bushes. We also replanted the corn, cucumb...

Subtitled: Why We Should Not Change the Words in the Hymnal and Agenda Also subtitled: Another Plus for the Historic One-Year Series When hi...

There were two pithy and insightful statements made during symposium that I really wanted to remember. One was Pr Bender's on Wednesda...

Our CSA vegetables last week included pea shoots. It was a new idea to me. You can harvest the top 4-8" of the pea plant. It can be...

We do not have a golf-course yard. When we drove up to the house after church today, I thought our yard looked so pretty with many patches ...

It's always hard when there's a visitor there (or unfortunately, sometimes even a member) who's scoffing. There's something...

Just to make sure people aren't getting their hopes up... I am not anticipating that a Thursday night supper and/or party at my house wi...

It's so quiet here today. Andrew took a morning nap and now he's asleep again. Gary and Maggie both napped this afternoon. I don...

Gary and I ate Glenda's salsa for our breakfast today. Andrew found the leftover salsa as I was hauling out the contents of the refrige...

Sometimes other people know things about you that you don't know yourself. I got dressed Wednesday night for church and the symposium re...

Once upon a time we were reading a children's science book. What do you call a group of birds? A flock. What do you call a group of wolv...

I think I heard "I'm so sorry for your loss" about a hundred times last week. Then there were the subtle variations: "I...

Finally got over to see Philip's condo today. Here are Gary and Philip carrying in some spare counter-space that Paul built for his bro...