Susan's Pendulum

We're refinancing the house. Y'know, lower interest rates these days, and all. So yesterday I'm talking to the mortgage office...

Do normal people shampoo the floor mats in their cars? Maybe I've been perpetually neglecting a basic task. I've been getting the v...

Later than all retail stores, and later even than the other branches of our bank, our branch's Christmas music finally hit the airwaves ...

Lora linked to an article about the younger generation discovering do-it-yourself domestic pursuits. Katie and Rachel fit in the age-ra...

Remember the story in Matthew where the lord gives treasure to some of his servants to manage while he's gone? One receives five talen...

How can a person not smile in response to such a happy picture? (Zoe is nearly 8 months old now.)

Rachel and Matt arrived Wednesday evening. Although Matt had to go home to go to work today, we kept Rachel. We've enjoyed having them...

Zoe loves to have somebody help her stand and walk! Alia wants to play Pandemic too. Tired of the board game; let's read stories. Crawl...

Our math textbook is from the early 80's. Maggie was doing a lesson on graphing. So there's a graph of TV-watching habits of the k...

Our hymn this week is "The Bridegroom Soon Will Call Us." I am, naturally, stumbling over the LSB translation. Normally, I sing ...

Back when I read Hal Lindsey's " The Late Great Planet Earth ," I didn't know why his predictions were wrong. And honestl...

We've tried a variety of off-brand cranberry jellies and have always been disappointed. We go back to Ocean Spray and vow to stick with...

Our story today is about Gideon going against the Midianite army with his 300 soldiers and their "fearsome" weapons of trumpets a...

Philip flew out of Chicago Sunday morning. He has two weeks of vacation in Japan. Because Japanese cell-phone towers do not mesh with Amer...

If you're looking for beautiful Christmas cards, Emmanuel Press has full-color artwork and sound messages inside. The quality of the c...

All works --everything we do-- is motivated by faith. It's not just that good works emanate from the faith of a heart that trusts in J...

How did I manage to come up with only one decent picture of the birthday girl? Zoe: Zoe and her godmother Cassie: Nathan and his mom Lu: Gar...

We bought our used piano 23 years ago, and at that point it was about 30 years old. Our tuner told us that it can't be tuned anymore. ...