Susan's Pendulum

Aldi was empty last night when I got off work. The only other time I'd seen the place so vacant was about 8 hours into an ice storm.  ...

Psalm 66 tells us that the Lord "keeps our soul among the living and does not allow our feet to be moved." Then it goes on to te...

Conscience is what preaching is all about in the Lutheran Confessions, from start to finish.   I have come to believe, with absolute firmne...

Common Core increases (yet again) the testing requirements on students.  a) Testing doesn't measure what it purports to measure.  b) Too...

I was always taught that a parable is "an earthly story with a heavenly meaning" and that Jesus told parables to help us understan...

Gluten.  The sticky stuff in pasta and wheat.  The reason you can make paste or glue by mixing water and white flour. GLUten. GLUe. And ...

From Thursday's Bible class -- notes and ruminations: Genesis 45:5, 8   Joseph told his brothers, "God sent me before you" ...

Paul mentioned in 2012 that he'd like a Dr Who scarf for Christmas.  I didn't like what I found online.  So for this Christmas I d...

You know those energy bars that are available at the grocery store?  The ones full of ingredients that sound like you're doing a science...

Snow removal.  Never-ending snow removal. Working extra hours.  Hooray that the office will soon be fully staffed! Fighting illness and ...

Maybe you're not out of it as badly as I am.  My head pretty much stays tucked in the sand, and I'm quite happy living in LaLa-Lan...

the effects of drifting on paw-prints Out roof-raking in the warm sunshine yesterday, I saw the cutest little dimples in the snow.  The...

In Illinois, people "scoop snow."  When we first moved to Wisconsin, people laughed at us.  "You're going to do WHAT w...

You've heard it. The passage is from Luke 14.  Jesus tells us that we take stock of our situation before building a tower so that we k...

My housemates who aren't exactly fond of salmon requested that this recipe be made again!  The original recipe is found here .  My [lazy...

How does a person vow to "suffer all, even death" rather than fall away from Christ, and then not even be able to "suffer...

This afternoon we attended a most lovely wedding at church.  You sit and listen to the Bible readings and the hymns and the sermon and the ...

Germs running rampant round about these parts.  Illness hasn't knocked out those who live at my house, but Christmas plans were a bit up...

Once upon a time, a bunch of sem-wives were gathered for a class with a sem professor.  One of the women took it upon herself to tell the re...

Two weeks ago, Andrew picked up the ring from the jeweler.  He came home and opened the mail to find that he had been accepted into the cl...