Susan's Pendulum

Been out of town for several days this week at the Wisdom and Eloquence conference in Ft Wayne. I have LOTS and lots of things to "thi...

Exodus 16:2-3 Then the whole congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. And the chi...

It was intense like a circus parade. Someone suggested that, if you don't get it, you could try saying it out loud a couple of times.

This week's [three-year series] epistle was from Ephesians 4. In it we hear about the gospel, and the ministry, and the Church. We hea...

A lady noticed her husband standing on the bathroom scale, sucking in his stomach. Thinking he was trying to weigh less with this maneuver, ...

It seems to have gotten to be so much harder to go on a trip. When the kids were babies, it was a big to-do: play-pen and diapers and blank...

A company, feeling it was time for a shake-up, hires a new CEO. This new boss is determined to rid the company of all slackers. On a tour of...

We picked enough beans earlier this week to add to a stirfry, but tonight was the first time I picked and got almost enough for the supper v...

A man had to attend a large convention in Chicago. On this particular trip he decided to bring his wife. When they arrived at their hotel an...

Combine 3/4 cup sugar and 2 Tablespoons cornstarch. Pour sugar over 1 quart of raspberries, and heat gently (do not cook!) until sugar melts...

My mom read me lots and lots of Arch books when I was little, and because of that I tend to know my Bible stories pretty well. But Sihon an...

One day, an immigrant from Poland entered a New York City Police Precinct to report that his American wife was planning to kill him. The pol...

It makes for a glorious day full of joy when a person doesn't try to do in one day what should normally be accomplished in the space of...

The tender, new, little plants are more likely to be nibbled by the bugs than are the bigger, stronger plants. Maybe sugar and caffeine and...

A customer sent an order to a distributor for a large amount of goods totaling a great deal of money. The distributor noticed that the previ...

The beginning of Psalm 148 calls on the angels and the Sabaoth, the sun, moon, and stars, the heavens, to praise the Lord. Then it says why...

Butter = $0.95 per cup Walmart's cheapest coconut oil = $1.40 per cup Real lard from the Darien butcher = $0.35 per cup Hydrogenated lar...

Since a couple of cyber-stalkers seem to have lost interest in my blog, I haven't been keeping a very close eye on my site-meter to kno...

In the past, I always got side-tracked during the late summer and early fall as I read Day by Day We Magnify Thee (also available in an upd...

We have books that need to be sold. I started listing Paul's textbooks from last semester on half.com. It's so hard to know how to...