Susan's Pendulum

Wariness reigns. We finally took care of the hauling job that's been on hold until after the holidays. So the van is now expendable. W...

As we were studying 1 Peter this morning, we came upon the verse (2:11) where Peter refers to us as sojourners and pilgrims. This week, Past...

I'd never seen this until last night: Abortion Is Mean Yes. I guess it is.

What's played into the spiral of economic catastrophe in our country and the world? When I saw this analogy online, I thought it helped ...

Jenny and Jane and Katie are gathering To-Be-Read lists. All my smart friends, reading stuff that intrigues me. But my list has to fit aro...

A picnic blanket lived in the trunk of my car this past year. During my lunch break at work, I would nuke my leftovers (or grab my sandwich...

Working on a project to ferret out all the "words" and "preached" and "spoke" in Luke's Christmas stories,...

The policeman was called to a busy intersection downtown where a mutt was giving birth to puppies. The officer didn't know what to do a...

A purple tutu! The riding toy wasn't a present. It came out of storage in the garage because it seemed like Zoe might be getting big en...

(This one was from two weeks earlier, for the Sunday School Christmas program.) Pretty!

alternately titled "If You Give Our Family a Sagging Cupboard" Ever since we moved in, the doors on the cupboard have not lined up...

Our house is on the corner. We have new next-door-neighbors behind us. When the family was checking out the place, their sons (maybe age 1...

Look at that! He's removing snow. And he doesn't have a tool of stick-plus-curved-metal in his hand. This thing has a motor . Th...

Five to seven minutes? Really? It was more like 25 minutes to bake them. I hope that isn't the sign of an oven in its death throes. ...

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? ...