Susan's Pendulum

Decorating the tree always mean a trip down Memory Lane. This one's from a missionary family who visited our church in 1995. It shows S...

Hanging above the kitchen sink, with the Revereware -- the Mistletoad . If I remember correctly, this fellow was a gift from a community Chr...

Do you really need to enunciate on the descant? It's high. It should be okay if you hit the note and just approximate the consonants, ...

"It's so cold outside," the elf said, "that I just watched a polar bear jump from one iceberg, trying to reach the next i...

The Mankato newspaper had an article last week on a half-hour movie produced by a couple of guys connected with Bethany . Paul said the bi...

The angel comes to Mary and greets her with "Blessed are you among women!" Mary goes to visit her cousin Elizabeth. She greets El...

I didn't know if my granddaughter, Rachel, had learned her colours yet, so I decided to test her. I would point out something and ask wh...

The property tax bill came recently. We were discussing whether to pay it in December or January, and how that would affect what we pay in ...

The dentist recommended two orthodontists for Andrew. He told us that he wasn't sure whether Andrew would need palate surgery too, or i...

The things you learn as you're teaching your kids... American soldiers in the first century of the country were excellent marksmen and s...

How do you know Santa is a man? Because no woman is going to wear the same outfit year after year after year ....

It's an amazing and humbling thing to look at your kids sometimes and see their faith and their good works, and realize that you would n...

I get to play chimes with Pam and Kara for Lessons & Carols on Sunday. Oh boy! And I get to play the drum for one of the songs. Oh b...

It's not hard to meet expenses; ... they're everywhere.

We came home from choir this afternoon to find a Pooh ornament off the tree, across the living room, under the edge of the back of the couch...

If I teach someone how to make kombucha or knead bread, I'm handing over a skill or a certain amount of knowledge. That's teaching,...

The only time the world beats a path to your door is if you're in the bathroom.

Everybody around here leaves their outdoor Christmas lights on all night. When you drive past houses in the daytime, you can usually see th...