Susan's Pendulum

Matt's graduation from med school was last Friday. Nobody from our family was able to go except me. It was enjoyable to be there with ...

Andrew reports on a car's bumper sticker he saw yesterday: Honk if you're Amish.

It is SO much easier to do what needs to be done for the people around you when you can do it freely and cheerfully. As soon as you're ...

Our loveseats are in lousy condition. We bought them used about 10 years ago from our doctor's office when they closed and moved to a n...

The huge amounts of black smoke would've made LOST fans think the smoke monster had gotten off the island. I assumed someone was burnin...

Drank three-and-a-half quarts of iced tea on Monday. Mmmmm. Maggie went to Leah's to swim. Monday was the hottest it's been since...

Hilled the potatoes. Even the ones that were zapped by the frost seem to be recovering nicely. Finally pruned the apple trees. One has a r...

God the Father . First person of the Trinity. Name for God. Cited in the Creed every day when we pray. Our Father who art in heaven. ...

Oh. I found pictures of my own. The previous ones were stolen from Kathy. I just love the looks from Grace, Matthias, Joey, and Mark! Bu...

The other day I was transplanting bleeding hearts from my friend Robin. Digging up the soil a bit, eliminating dandelions and other interl...

Maggie's been singing with the Academy Choir since November. It's taken a LOT of trips during the school day back and forth to chur...

The maharajah of an Indian province issued a royal decree. He ordered that no one was to kill any wild animals while he was the country...

strawberry fields forever Look at all those flowers. And even some itty-bitty strawberries starting to form.

Worrying works! 90% of the things I worry about never happen.

A friend gave us a couple of tickets to a Brewers game recently. It was a fun, fun evening. (And it was even a good baseball game. Tripl...

Being fond of very bad puns, and being in the midst of physics lessons where we're adding a lot of vectors, this one just tickled my fun...

No doubt, some of my friends will be disappointed in my rejoicing. But here goes anyway... I have been trying to gain control over my compu...

Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things from Your law. Doesn't that just go so nicely with the story of the Emmaus disciples ? The...

Whoever coined the phrase "Quiet as a mouse" has never stepped on one.

Q: How do you confuse a French soldier? A: Give him a rifle and ask him to shoot it. - - - - - - - - Q: Why don't Master Card and Vis...