Susan's Pendulum

So what do you do when you're having 18 people over for Sunday dinner, but you'll be gone from 7:00 until 12:30, arriving at home fr...

Katie's old blog disappeared. That's where I stored my gumbo recipe. I used to just wing it, but she and Rachel wanted to follow m...

One week old: Posted here because there are blog-readers who aren't Facebook-friends with Katie to see what she posts there.

Oh, sadness, oh, woe. I think yesterday I may have eaten my last donut. I was working the polls. The town administrator brought in a box o...

In Sunday's [3-year] Gospel, we hear about Jesus' giving sight to the man who was born blind. The story starts with the question a...

One of the guys at church was admiring Zoe after church on Sunday morning. He teased Rachel that she was not keeping up with Katie. Katie ...

Just when you could use a run of sunny days to help a newborn overcome her slight [and perfectly normal] jaundice, the forecast has days an...

What does a person do with a whole day to herself? (Well, besides clean and cook and catch up on all sorts of tasks?) Last week the kids we...

Celebrating Gary's birthday, we ate supper at a little coffee shop around the corner from the theatre we attended. My adventurous choic...

A quote from p 312 of Hammer of God -- Aunt Agneta is speaking to the pastor, Torvik, about the cross and suffering and sharing each other...

A cartoon of an April Fool's Joke gone very wrong.

Just grabbing a couple of minutes to throw some pictures on the blog of Katie & Nathan's new arrival.

Pastor was talking the other day about how he likes the phrase, "the implanted Word." It reminds us of the seed being sown or pla...

When there's not much money, a family learns to buy only what it needs, not what it wants. But what constitutes needs and wants ? Yes,...

Before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now I keep Your word. It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn Your statute...

What is it about singing good, strong Lutheran chorales, in 3- or 4-part harmony, without accompaniment? It's lush and rich. Our choir...

We had fire drills and tornado drills regularly at school. We even had drills to practice what we'd do in case of a nuclear attack. (I...

On my second day of training at my new job, my mentor took me aside and told me that I had to stop talking to myself. She said that a coup...

Some years ago, we were visiting with our friends Fritz and Carol. Gary and Carol were in the kitchen getting a start on supper, and Fritz ...

Well, okay, so that's not exactly how Paul put it. Do you remember the story in Acts 16? Paul and Silas were preaching in Philippi. ...