Susan's Pendulum

The statewide homeschool conference is today. It used to be a given that we'd be there. We saw friends. We collected ideas. We were ...

How many second violinists does it take to change a light bulb? None. They can't get up that high!

A lot of creeping charlie, dandelions, and thistles have been weeded out of the berry patches. Personally, I have no desire to put thistles...

One Sunday, sitting on the side of the highway waiting to catch speeding drivers, a State Police Officer sees a car puttering along at 22 mp...

In 1984 , George Orwell wrote about a society where there was no privacy. Homes and offices were bugged. Everything people said and did wa...

A man observed a woman in the grocery store with a three-year-old girl in her basket. As they passed the cookie section, the child asked fo...

Bill and George are bungee-jumping one day. Bill says to George, "You know, we could make a lot of money running our own bungee-jumping...

A man goes into a bar and seats himself on a stool. The bartender looks at him and says, "What'll it be buddy?" The man says,...

When I returned home from college for a break, I noticed a paper posted on the refrigerator. It listed some goals my dad had set for himsel...

A cannibal was walking through the jungle and came upon a restaurant operated by a fellow cannibal. Feeling somewhat hungry, he sat down an...

Several people have recommended participating in freecycle. Today I finally signed up for an account. Over a dozen people jumped posthaste...

A little boy went to the store with his grandmother and on the way home, he was looking at the things she had purchased. He found a package ...

We used to tease that my husband is bald "just like his father." I was told repeatedly that this is wrong wrong wrong. Men do NO...

The best way to tell what a church believes is to attend a couple of funerals. Is the focus on Jesus' redemption of sinners? Is the fo...

An old man lived alone in Idaho. He wanted to spade his potato garden, but it was very hard work. His only son, Allen, who used to help him...

I don't know about you, but I always heard that phrase before to mean, "David had such a great heart, so God wanted him to be His o...

My mother and I returned to my parents' house late one evening to find my father, my college-age brother, Steven, and my ten-year-old si...

Romans 3 -- In Christ Jesus we have boldness and access with confidence through faith in Him. Pastor loves to refer to this picture of Pres...

The proud father brought home a backyard swing set for his children and immediately started to assemble it with all the neighborhood childre...

A young friend asked the other day about whether I'm really an unschooler; she said there are a lot of things that I write about on my b...