Susan's Pendulum

Before I jog for 20 minutes, it's important to go potty. I have often felt irresponsible that I didn't do my Kegel exercises as my...

I have reached the age where happy hour is the hour I get to take a nap.

I'm suddenly feeling rather cranky. I've had a touch of a cold this week. Nothing much. I did have a low-grade fever on Monday, bu...

Wanting to make something that took no effort on a day when I wasn't feeling well, I invented something, in hopes that it would be edibl...

What did Eli Whitney say to his wife? Keep your cotton-pickin' hands off my gin. from Pastor in Bible class last week

One of the common chants for the protests in Madison and elsewhere throughout the state is, "This is what democracy looks like!" ...

In Exodus 6, when God tells Moses to go speak to Pharaoh, Moses doesn't want to go. "How shall Pharaoh heed me, for I am of uncirc...

Stolen from Tammy: How do you stop 14 runners? With 1 Walker .

About a year ago, I was visiting Jane for several days. On Tuesday night, I began to help clean up the kitchen. "No, you don't!...

Why did the Amish woman divorce her husband? Because he just kept driving her buggy. from Sandy, told in Bible class this week

Five quarts of sour milk? When Maggie was sick and banned from milk, we ended up with a lot that soured before we drank it. (That showed u...

Begotten of the Father from eternity, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the ...

I read the label on that bottle. I did. Really. Not carefully enough, though. I saw the words "pure cornstarch" on the label. ...

Self-denial. We think of giving up chocolate for Lent. We think of denying ourselves what the flesh craves: a nice vacation on a beach, new...

Apparently, a formal "farewell to alleluia" has been gaining popularity for Transfiguration Sunday. There are a few things I don...

My friend Sandy tells about a recent meeting when the Kenyans and a few Americans were working on their new hymnal -- The first part of ou...

It used to be that food manufacturers advertised their products "as good as home-made" or "tastes as great as Mom used to mak...

In Thine arms I rest me; foes who would molest me cannot reach me here. Though the earth be shaking, every heart be quaking, Jesus calms my ...

A customer was really upset with me the other day. He was making a substantial withdrawal from his savings account, and I asked for ID. He...

"There is absolutely nothing in us that should cause God to forgive." What do you think of that? It's a sentence from the new...