Susan's Pendulum

"Holy Week." All my life, I heard that as a title. This Thursday in Bible class, Pastor said it differently. It was like "h...

Two weeks old.

Registration began this morning for the CNA classes at our local tech school. To be admitted to the RN program, a student must already have...

When Paul is headed off to Jerusalem for Pentecost, knowing that something really bad is awaiting him, he skips Ephesus but takes time to v...

Pastor commented in Bible class this week that Acts ends abruptly. If you're reading about Paul, you don't get the end of the story...

It is a curious thing that Christians talk about death as a sleep. We do it because the Apostle Paul did it. It's a word that shows th...

On the Learn-Something-New-Every-Day front: I really believe in whole foods. I don't buy instant rice; I buy brown whole-grain rice. I...

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...