Susan's Pendulum

Saul had been made king of Israel. After only a couple of years, he disobeyed God's prophet and took matters into his own impatient han...

An airliner was having engine trouble, and the pilot instructed the cabin crew to have the passengers take their seats and get prepared for ...

In the last chapter of More All -of-a-Kind Family , the family is preparing to leave their home, their extended family, their synagogue, th...

Shamelessly stolen from Bekah because not all of you will see it: Whatever you give a woman, she's going to multiply. If you give her...

A four-minute video which captures some of why I love this place :

Today some of us homeschoolers attended Henry V at APT . As Janelle and I were talking afterward, there were ideas and character-developme...

For twenty years of homeschooling, we looked at "school" as part of life. People read. People solve problems. People learn what...

One day down. Only 160 or so to go. I need to jog. Outdoors, not on a treadmill. When the sun is up, not before chapel or after Gary gets...

Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, and His mercy endures forever. Psalm 136 is the one where the psalmist rehearses the history of...

At chapel this year we are praying Matins ( LSB pg 219) on Monday, Wednesday, Fridays, and using Service of Prayer and Preaching (LSB pg 26...

Looking ahead to the day when Maggie will be grown-up and no longer covered by our health insurance, I have been looking into some options t...

A lot of people who google "vcfs pictures" or "vcfs photos" end up coming to my blog , and that post unfortunately has n...

Pr Petersen has a wonderful post on the law , and how it should and shouldn't be preached, and what it does. Amen to what he says, espe...

We occasionally hear complaints about homeschoolers who are goofing off, playing outdoors. And it crossed my mind today that the neighbors ...

You gotta wonder what's up with our society when a cooking show is doing a segment on barbecuing, including roasting a pig on a spit, an...

At a conference I attended last month, the Lutheran speaker told us that a classical education will better prepare the heart to receive Chr...

In spring we noticed that the bars of my home-made soap lasted so much longer than store-bought soap. But when I made another batch in May ...

Remember in the story (in 2 Samuel 6) about David bringing the ark to Jerusalem? I always felt so bad for Uzzah that he was struck dead for...

Can a person have taste-bud hallucinations? For the last year or so, I've been tasting cinnamon in Snickers. Never tasted it there befo...

Classical education seems to be a topic of interest to many people in the last decade or so. Try as I might, I cannot get a handle on what ...