Susan's Pendulum

(Notes to remind myself.  Nobody else will want to bother reading.) Low-fat vegan diet for several days: no caffeine, no sugar, no gluten,...

Unlike me, some of you have, well, y'know, taste .  And some of you enjoy looking at decorating magazines.  So I'd like to ask for i...

Again?  We cut into an avocado, expecting to add deliciousness to a sandwich, and it wasn't ripe enough.  Let's get real -- it wasn...

Wingren's book isn't what I expected.  Loads of people had recommended it as a fabulous book about vocation.  There are definitely g...

Jews have no dealing with Samaritans (John 4) .  The Samaritan (yeah, you know, the good Samaritan, the one in the parable) was somebody t...

When the lawyer wanted to trap Jesus in His words (prior to the parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10 ), Jesus asked, "What is writt...

We self-righteous humans are prone to thinking the story of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10) is all about what we should DO.  I find it intere...

The angels must have been affected by our sin. I never thought of it before. They're created beings.  The whole creation groans, awa...

Once upon a time, I felt greedy and guilty when people would hand over STUFF when we happened to mention we needed something like it.  Our p...

A lot of us middle-aged people learned about classical music more from Bugs Bunny than we did from school.   Even without formal and systema...

Too.  Much.  Stuff. Although there are plenty of more pressing tasks on the to-do list, I am distracted by my desire to de-clutter.  The y...

So I don't like skits during church.  But is that just my preference, whereas somebody else has a different preference? I figured it o...

You've heard non-apology "apologies":  "If anyone was offended by what happened, then I want you all to know that was nev...

[Yawn ...] Folks talk about post-modernism, and I tune out.  Despite hearing people talk about it ad nauseum and what it means for society...

Driving home from a visit to Mom, we watched the storms passing behind us or to the south of us. Certainly an interesting weather lesson! ...

Maggie answers the phone, knows she can't handle whatever-it-is the stranger is saying, and passes the phone off to Mom.  I pick up the ...

"Praise to You, O Lord"? "Glory be to Thee, O .... Christ???  Lord???  What IS the word?" When I was little, I could ...

I admit it up-front: I don't have a sense for decorating.  I would like a prettier house, but I don't want it enough to figure out w...

"So my friend is gay.  He's a really nice guy, and he goes to church and reads his Bible and everything.  Surely God won't sen...

"So my friend is gay.  He's a really nice guy, and he goes to church and reads his Bible and everything.  Surely God won't send...