Susie

How many of you enjoy sitting down and reading a dictionary?  Dictionaries aren’t usually considered especially exciting reading material.  But while I was traveling recently, the guys I often work with had worked a bit without me, and one of the things they had done was go through a list of potential new words for […]

A few weeks ago I was reading a biography of Mary Slessor, a pioneer missionary in what is now Nigeria, and came upon the following quotation:  So, she realized, it was not a case where one could say, “Let there be light,” and light would shine.  The work of the Mission was like building a […]

My next-door neighbor is a nice guy and a very nice neighbor.  We don’t have problems and he’s always very courteous.  Shortly after he moved in he introduced me to his girlfriend, and after a while I noticed that she seemed to be growing bigger in the mid-section.  (Here, sadly, that’s not uncommon before marriage.)  […]