Susan's Pendulum

Early Tuesday morning I was going to spend 15 or 20 minutes washing part of the deck so that I could spend the latter part of the morning pa...

An 80-yr-old woman, in despair, decided to kill herself. She located a gun to commit the deed. She called her doctor to find out exactly w...

Munchkin has learned his phonics. B is for bear; buh, buh, buh. F is for fox; fph, fph, fph. He looks at the sentence: The dog ran after ...

My old living room: hand-me-down furniture from our doctor's waiting room combined with a lovely, rich, red wall paint. As beautiful as...

Two Irishmen walk into a pet shop. Right away they go over to the bird section. Gerry says to Paddy, "Dat's dem." The assista...

The lone turkey came a-wandering into our backyard. Athena was enthralled. She sat and watched. And waited. The bird came closer and clo...

I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.

So, depending on our age, we've probably brushed our teeth 10,000 to 75,000 times. Really now, WHY do we need the mirror?

Once I came upon this pretty new temp standing in front of the paper shredder with a confused look on her face. I asked if she needed any he...

Our family is expanding. Nope, no one is engaged and no one is pregnant. In a couple of weeks, my daughter and her family will be moving i...

The problem with winning the laundry game is that there aren't enough hangers when everything is clean!

The shopkeeper was dismayed when a brand new business much like his own opened up next door and erected a huge sign which read BEST DEALS . ...

Today we - picked, washed, and snapped beans - picked tomatoes - made awesome salsa - dug one hill of potatoes - did the banking - managed t...

It was the day of the big sale. Rumors of the sale (and some advertising in the local paper) were the main reason for the long line that had...

Walking through Chinatown, a tourist is fascinated with all the Chinese restaurants, shops, signs, and banners. He turns a corner and sees a...

Do jellyfish get gas from eating jellybeans?

While sports fishing off the Florida coast, a tourist capsized his boat. He could swim, but his fear of alligators kept him clinging to the ...

The whole time we were reading Betsy in Spite of Herself , Maggie and I craved fudge. The teenagers in that story made fudge every time the...

My children used to think that pancakes were made of wheat flour, eggs, and milk. Then Pastor introduced my children to the concept of choc...

We ran the AC earlier this week for two days. Apparently the hose was plugged. Yesterday morning I found water on the basement floor, wett...