Susan's Pendulum

We watched I Confess again last week. This time I was struck by two things I hadn't noticed before. (Warning: spoilers follow.) First,...

Why is it that I hate using that last of something? It doesn't bother me to use hamburger and rice and canned tomatoes freely. I'm ...

On this St Matthias Day, Pr Eckardt writes on whether the Eleven should have chosen a successor to Judas so that they would again be the Tw...

From Kari, who has some of the best laughs! LETTER FROM AN EXCELLENT BOSS Dear Employees: As the CEO of this organization, I have resigned m...

Mag mentioned last night wanting to learn to sew. I wasn't sure whether to start with the machine or hand-sewing. Last night while we r...

F ear O f M issing S omething. It's a fear that I share with a lot of my friends. Online friends and some in-real-life friends. As I t...

My friend Steve told me once about the Department of Redundancy Department, augmented by the Department of Multivalence Bureau. My pastor (...

The house was cleaned fairly recently. I'm done editing Karl's book. I'm going to Woodmans tomorrow, so there was no sense in gr...

We learn that when we do experiments, we must change only one variable at a time. If there are several variations happening, you don't ...

In the parable of the vineyard (Matthew 21 and Luke 20), the owner of the vineyard sends messengers to his workers. But they refuse to list...

A man lay sprawled across three entire seats in the posh theatre. When the usher came by and noticed this, he whispered to the man, "So...

Do you remember the story in Luke 8 and Mark 4, where the disciples' boat was caught in a storm, and Jesus was sleeping through it all? ...

When the office printer's type began to grow faint, the office manager called a local repair shop where a friendly man informed him that...

A mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer are all given identical rubber balls and told to find the volume. They are given anything they...

The doctor said, "Jerry, the good news is that I can cure your headaches, the bad news is that it will require castration. You have a ...

Today is the last humongous party-day before Lent starts. It's our last chance at self-indulgence until Easter-tide, right? Even for th...

Give me spring, lots of spring, under sunny skies above -- don't fence me in. Let me be in the wide open spaces that I love [in summery ...

Toward the end of Sunday service, the minister asked, "How many of you have forgiven your enemies?" 80% held up their hands. The m...

Four walls and part of the roof! Another 6-8 months of traipsing to far-away Woodmans locales and/or fudging by with Aldi & Walmart, and...