Susan's Pendulum

This is the day which the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Which day are we talking about here? The verse is from the Pass...

Andrew wondered last night why we have to leave church in silence tonight and tomorrow night, and why we have to assemble in silence on Frid...

Three weeks old now.

Bwwaaa haaa haaaa! By the way, you people in Illinois and Indiana are making me jealous. Last year, in the first few days of April, I tilled...

Between counting money and working a mouse, I'm feeling carpal tunnel problems originally developed in gardening. (And I'm not even...

It used to be that a price increase of a penny or two a gallon translated into a 2-5% price increase. Today, a 2-5% price increase is 10-15...

Go take a look at something my friend Melody wrote last year. I laughed and laughed at the picture!

From The Hobbit , chapter 3, when the dwarves and Gandalf and Bilbo are being refreshed at Rivendell -- Now it is a strange thing, but thing...

"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...