Susan's Pendulum

I miss Gary.  He's been in Illinois 11 days of the last month.  His dad fell a week ago and had repair-surgery last weekend.  Today he m...

That distinctive odor.  I can smell it in the pantry as soon as it starts.  So you grab the bag of potatoes, dump them all out, and find the...

Glory.   Big shiny powerfulness?   Mighty awesomeness? Pastor's always saying that God's glory is in His love, in His self-sacr...

Those pains in the neck?  I'm too tall; our back massager cannot reach them.   As I sat reading to Maggie, I tried contorting into weir...

"Bear one another's burdens" really has a lot more to do with forgiving one another's sins than it does with psycho-social...

If you can't have butter, and if you're trying to turn cocoa powder into fudgy brownies, this worked superbly! 13x9" recipe ...

I think those Russian women had it figured out.  They got old and wore their babushkas.  Who would see their thinning hair turning grey?  It...

Pastor pointed out this morning:   In Luke 4, the devil quotes Psalm 91 to Jesus, saying that He can jump off the roof of the temple becaus...

Maggie and I decided to take Gary to Discovery World before our membership runs out.  I love the aquarium there.  Things I noticed: ~ I h...

Three days in a row at home. Oh, it's a beautiful thing! After two and a half months of working extra days every week, we made a tri...

Thawed tilapia.  What to do with it for dinner?  Yowza -- I hit the jackpot with an online recipe .  I used 2# of fish and cooked it in two ...

Moses and Elijah both struggled with doubts.  "I don't want to be doing this, Lord."  "I've had enough of this; these...

Cleaning my room today, I found a note  from an Advent sermon.  I don't know  if it's a quote from somebody famous, or  just ...

This two-minute video has been spreading around Facebook.  I finally watched it.  Maggie caught me crying over it. To direct and defe...

We rarely get enough of what we don't need to make us happy.    (From p. 15 of  A Little Book on Joy   by Matt Harrison.) Littl...

Same ol' long hair pulled back in a ponytail/bun. I like the back! I think the bangs are too short.   (And boy, it's wei...

On those days before Christmas when it was raining, how often did I thankfully say, "At least we don't have to shovel it"? W...

DARE to be Lutheran! Andrew, Philip, and Matthew have a game day.

Do you scan the bookshelves of people you're getting to know?  When you're visiting a friend , do you check out the front of the ...

Zoe quickly became attached to the fireplace.  Three times in a row (Dec 22, 23, 25) when she was here, there was a fire.  When she arrive...