Susan's Pendulum

Teachers "do" timelines in different ways. Some teachers don't consider it important enough to bother hanging on the wall. S...

I used to cook out of the pantry. With fewer people I can't keep well-stocked the perishable parts of my pantry (particularly the produ...

"I could use this." "I need this." Those are not the same thing. [Surprise!!!] I have such good intentions. So few of ...

You know that bright yellow mustard that people slap on hotdogs? When I was a kid, I couldn't stand to eat a fast-food burger unless it...

I admit it: I am prejudiced against Oscar-winning films. If a movie wins an award from the type of people who dole out that award, I am sus...

The paid job: When I started balancing my drawer at work today, the balance sheet came up $1 off. My first response was "So where did ...

I understand that I was more into free-range parenting than most other parents I knew. I also understand that, in the past 25 years, socie...

I guess I'm very bad and vengeful. You know that verse? If your enemy is hungry, feed him, and if he is thirsty, give him a drink. For ...

God had said, "In the day that you eat of [the fruit of the tree of knowledge] you shall surely die." Then Adam and Eve ate the f...

The martyr first whose eagle eye could pierce beyond the grave, who saw his Master in the sky and called on Him to save. Like Him, with pard...

Four loaves of bread. Turning a pie-pumpkin into a pumpkin pie. Roasting the seeds. Stewing two chickens for meals later this week. Teriyaki...

Yesterday I unplugged from half my Facebook friends. This doesn't mean they aren't friends any more, but it does mean that I won...

Last time I shopped at Aldi, there was no whole-wheat pasta. When I asked the clerk, she said it had been discontinued due to lack of sales...

Our psalm for this week is 25. Four times David talks in this one psalm about being ashamed or not being ashamed. I don't know about y...

In an attempt to cut down on my computer time, I've decided to ban myself from Facebook four days per week. I intend to cut my friends-...

The pillar of cloud/fire led the Israelites in the wilderness. At the end of Numbers 10, we hear what Moses said when they started out jour...

God instructed Moses that there should be two silver trumpets. They would be used to notify the Israelites when to gather, and when to pic...

We keep trying to find time to work in the garden. Andrew and Maggie helped me a lot at the end of last week, but it's been raining con...

Love means "I will do whatever it takes so that you might live." -- Kenneth Korby