Susan's Pendulum

Wisconsin television stations were recently scammed. Or duped. Or made a less-than-wise programming decision. A guy named Kenny purported...

Good Morning America interviewed an unschooling family recently, chose the snips of film that would make them look as weird as possible, and...

US tourists, a man and his wife are traveling in the Middle East. An Arab approaches the husband, saying, "I'll give you 100 camels...

Ten weeks ago I got a haircut . I liked it enough to want to keep it that length. I should've had it cut 2-4 weeks ago. I don't w...

A little girl was trying to raise $100 for her softball team. She prayed for two weeks but nothing happened. Then she decided to write a l...

It seems frivolous to play when there's work to be done. Do the work first. Then rest. Or goof off. If we play before we work, we co...

A farm boy accidentally overturned his wagonload of wheat on the road. The farmer that lived nearby came to investigate. "Hey, Will...

It's such fun to have Philip over. He's the one who, for so many years, drove our homeschool with his curiosity about a gazillion ...

A band director named Ravelli was having a lot of trouble with one drummer. He talked and talked and talked with the drummer, and perform...

Because some of you aren't Facebook friends with Katie, here are a few pictures from recent months. Drawing with markers in February Jus...

Go read my daughter's tale of an interchange with some customers at work last weekend. I couldn't stop laughing as I read it!

The father of five children had won a toy at a raffle. He called his kids together to ask which one should have the present. "Who is...

Sandy tells the story of how, when she was little, her uncle would play a game of asking the kids to "sing an A" or "what is...

For Eamonn -- A girl went out on a date with a trumpet player. When she came home that evening, her roommate asked, "Well, how was it?...

In the story of the great catch of fish after the resurrection (John 21) , when the disciples arrive onshore, they find Jesus with a fire o...

Did Jesus show Himself to Thomas to get Thomas to believe in Him? (John 20) That's what we usually hear. But Paul tells us that faith c...

Hemmed and finished the second dress on Tuesday while I was hawking CCA materials at the district pastors' conference. Thursday I had a ...

In a brazen theft of Melody's idea, I'd like to try a weekly farm report garden report. One tulip has bloomed. The other should b...

It is SO awkward when somebody comes up to you with a big smile and a buoyant greeting and a hug/handshake ... and you don't know who th...

As Andrew and I prepped for his ACT, we were both initially intimidated by all the stuff that he was supposed to know about literature. I d...