Susan's Pendulum

From Betsy in Spite of Herself by Maud Hart Lovelace. It's near the end of the book when Betsy is looking for that guy, Joe. She chec...

The best part of procrastination, is that you are never bored, because you have all kinds of things that you should be doing.

This Kentucky horse breeder had a filly that won every race in which she was entered. But as she got older she became very temperamental. He...

Our church school has a flea market coming up. I'm thinking about getting a booth and selling some junk and some used books. But I...

My mother always told me to finish what I started, but she had no idea of some of the people I'd be dealing with.

Once upon a long time ago, when we were signed up for WIC, each month we were to receive a couple of pounds of dry beans. I had no clue wha...

He was a mediocre conductor of a mediocre orchestra. He had been having problems with the basses; they were the least professional of his mu...

These beans started as a side dish one evening. But by the time we doctored them up, neither Gary nor I wanted the main dish. We just want...

Sunday's gospel (end of Luke 9) included the incident where the man who was called to follow Jesus asked if he might first go back and b...

Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

When we went on vacation, we stayed in cabins with kitchens. The kitchens had dishes and pots and silverware and towels and dishsoap. But ...

Just a reminder (in light of something I heard recently)... This blog exists for two main reasons. 1. So that Mom and my kids can keep up o...

I recently asked my friends' little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be President of the United Sta...

The problem with weeding is the original Pringles jingle: "once you pop, you can't stop." You start popping those clover root...

We had the story today of Elijah, post-Mt-Carmel, when God told him to go anoint Elisha as his successor (1 Kings 19). Elisha wanted to go ...

One summer evening, during a violent thunderstorm, a mother was tucking her son into bed. She was about to turn off the light when he asked ...

Thought the allergens were getting to me. Or the humidity. But probably it's a cold. Not used to being sick. I noticed yesterday tha...

Sick-day negotiations between union members and their employer were at an impasse. The union denied that their workers were flagrantly abusi...

We're all very familiar with the Palm Sunday epistle . Jesus emptied Himself. He took on human flesh to save us. He suffered the deat...

Oh, this is so mean. I shouldn't have laughed. But I did! You're sitting in your riverfront office one day, when you see a lawyer ...