Susan's Pendulum

In a recent conversation about messy rooms, mommas wondered whether to fight the battle, whether to keep nagging, whether to shut the bedroo...

Growing up, I expected some snow before Thanksgiving. When we moved north, it was not shocking if there were snow or flurries before my son...

Ricky, Jimmy, and Stu were on the bus home from elementary school when a fire engine zoomed past their bus with blaring sirens. The three ki...

The fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. And to depart from evil is understanding. (Job 28) When Solomon became king, God told him to ask for...

Panera's gives away their bread each evening rather than throwing it in the trash. One of the women at church lives at a place that som...

Sign in a cafeteria: "Shoes are required to eat in the cafeteria." And hand-written underneath: "Sandals can eat any place th...

Praise for the first of martyrs who saw You ready stand to help in time of torment, to plead at God's right hand. Like You, our sufferin...

A great feel-good movie from the old Disney: Follow Me, Boys . I don't know if somebody recommended this to us or if Netflix did becau...

A large two-engine train was crossing the country. After they had gone some distance, one of the engines broke down. "No problem,"...

My friend Susan asked for a report on the sweet potato crop we grew this summer. The seed catalog said they'd grow this far north. The...

As Maggie and I were working on Building Thinking Skills today, we came across a problem with an unusual-for-the-book answer. We checked a...

Freddy the Pig , by Walter R Brooks, starting with Freddy Goes to Florida Freddy Goes to the North Pole Freddy the Detective The Story of F...

Bernie's mom admitted to being a less than fastidious housekeeper. One evening dad returned home from work, walked into the kitchen and ...

Or hot dog buns. A dozen of whichever you prefer. I love this recipe which came from Mary Schultz. It's relatively fast for a bread re...

We read our first Magic Tree House book Sunday. I think the fiction stories are meant for younger kids to read on their own; the one Maggie...

Brenda's 6-year-old was explaining to the other kids what "extinct" meant: "Well," she said in all seriousness, ...

During September I spent nine days proofreading a friend's doctoral thesis. The project was to gather in one place all the textual crit...

Books that are not to be missed: Margaret Wise Brown - Color Kittens . Virginia Lee Burton - The Little House . Virginia Lee Burton - Mike M...

Two men were talking. "My son asked me what I did during the Sexual Revolution," said one. "I told him I was captured early a...

Kids were gone from yesterday morning at 9:30 until they arrived home from church today. Gary and I were here alone. Think of all we could...