Susan's Pendulum

Is it harder to stand up straight when you're tired and weary?  I've been noticing people.  I can't tell if it's just my i...

For real?  But that's what Daniel did.  (Yup, Daniel.  As in "Daniel in the lions' den."  That Daniel.) The story is i...

You know those old stories.  Elijah's ministry was finished.  Elisha was the prophet.  Israel wouldn't listen.  God was trying to ge...

Gift cards. Yup, that's the answer. If you're nervous about the thought of putting your credit-card number out there in cyberspa...

Are you frugal enough to take batteries out of a energy-hogging machine and test them, in case they still have enough oomph to run something...

Because the word-verification system made it hard for my mom to comment on my blog, I removed it.  Whoa -- I started seeing spammy comment...

As I was checking out of the grocery store today, a woman was sitting nearby, holding a sobbing child.  A couple of people inquired if there...

So, I anticipate seeing Facebook posts and blogposts about the wonderful dinners y'all ate and the fun things you did to celebrate.  Our...

Next Tuesday (February 19) is the primary for Wisconsin State Supreme Court Justice.  1) There's a clear difference in the candidates....

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 ...