Susan's Pendulum

While piano-hunting, the salesmen repeatedly pointed out the benefits of the earphones that can be plugged into a digital piano. They told ...

George was having a grand time at the local bar, jigging around to the music. Suddenly he felt the call of nature and had to pass gas. He ...

Played some piano. Reviewed Hilde's descant for "O Savior of Our Fallen Race." Made bread. Cleaned the oven and the stove...

My son is headed off to Haiti in January, three weeks hence. His godfather's congregation serves as the Lutheran University Student Cen...

I never understood why my mom and others would say, "You're DRIVING in those FLIPFLOPS? How can you drive like that?" Why? ...

Many of you will laugh at my cluelessness, but nevertheless, here goes. Until yesterday, I didn't know the difference between Richard Da...

Because I knew I would come to the end of the day, take a look at all the unfinished tasks on my to-do list, and bemoan having "done no...

The kids are with some friends for the week. Gary's at work. I'm not scheduled to work. Nothing's on the calendar at church. ...

Holy Innocents. The children murdered by Herod the Great in his attempt to snuff out the life of this newborn king he'd heard rumor of....

The problem with Christmas being on a Sunday is that we get cheated out of a Sunday. Isn't Christmas supposed to be an extra day of go...

Why is it that I can go to a nice resale shop and find all sorts of very nice things that I'm thrilled to buy for Christmas presents .....

We spent a lot of time in Bible class yesterday looking at the canticles of Luke 1-2. We also saw how these songs lifted from the word give...

Usually --but not always-- the winter solstice (the "Official First Day of Winter") lands on December 21. My 2011 calendar says t...

In the resurrection accounts, the women are told to go tell the disciples ... what? In two Gospel accounts, they were to tell that Jesus wo...

In prayer, we don't give God information He doesn't already know. In prayer, we're not trying to get God to change His mind and...

If you are suspicious that wrong names might show up on the petition to Recall Governor Walker, there are two things to look into. First, if...

In theory, if you've already been through something bad once, you should know that you managed to survive it. Then why is it that the p...

We have several of those clips for the chip bags. Why? Don't wooden clothes-pins do the job? They're cheaper. They don't hog...

Speak comfort to Jerusalem, and cry out to her, that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she has received from the Lord...

John the Baptist said he was not worthy to loosen the strap of the Messiah's sandal. Most of us heard that all our lives as "I...