Susan's Pendulum

Watching one episode of Downton Abbey, we gasped when we saw the family playing Skittle Bowl.  "Hey!  We have that!" It belong...

Snow-mixed-with-rain every day this week.  But we've comforted ourselves with "At least it's not sticking."  And this mo...

Well, I sure was schnookered by that review. The reviewer wrote that "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" was a movie about an unconv...

So I think this was the first Easter Vigil ever where I sang the Song of the Three Young Men (including the lines "You frost and cold, ...

Okay, so Jesus was mocked. And they beat Him up. And the Father's wrath was poured upon Him. Bad stuff.  Painful stuff. But someho...

One morning recently, as we were opening at work, somebody inadvertently left out a step.  Beep beep beep.   The alarm sounded. The security...

There's something in Narnia that always confused me.  Always.  In The Last Battle , at the end of the book, one of the Calormenes ends ...

When you're sick, where do you head?  To the couch?  Or to your bed? Maggie asked me once why Beaver Cleaver's mother would send h...

Pastor Esget writes briefly about why this week is different from all other weeks of the year.  This week is everything .  (And for somebod...

And here's why: Sin wrecked everything. Therefore the forgiveness of sins fixes everything. -- an excerpt from tonight's sermo...

You know you've been watching too much BBC when an American character shows up in Downton Abbey, and you begin puzzling to yourself, ...

Nearly-two-year-old Zoe was listening to a book that my mom bought once-upon-a-time for my kids.  It's sung to the tune of Jingle Bells,...

At work I am a hypocrite.  A shell.  A faker.  My co-workers really don't know me.  Hey, I'm supposed to "act professional...

Four-year-old Alia told me, with a sneaky twinkle in her eyes, that "a goose was coming out of my pants leg."  Well, okay.  I wa...

You know those lovely, round, rustic-looking loaves of bread?  I could never pull them off.  I tried making a round ball of dough, let it ri...

"We believe in synergism with regard to sanctification." I've heard it from a variety of people. Some even quote one of the ...

Maggie's echocardiogram today looked great.  Based on how her heart sounded during last year's check-up, the doctor expected some de...

... He gave it to His disciples and said, "Take, eat; this is My body."  ... "Drink of it, all of you ..." Hey!  He g...

Folding socks and hankies and napkins. And they're sticking to my hands.  Like as if my hands are so rough and dry and scaly that they...

Time is money, they say. According to a sample issue of allrecipes (which arrived in my mail this week), you pay more for convenience foo...