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How Hard Can It Be?
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost We dropped my grandson off for his first year at Snow College yesterday. He may or may not have had a tear or two glistening in his eyes as we disappeared around the corner. It’s a…
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A Seat at the Table
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost There are many legends about the ability of mystical objects to draw people to them and invoke the power to change people’s lives forever. In the story of King Arthur, for example, a young boy pulls…
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The Best Reason
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost The Best Reason Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Son #4 is physically intimidating. He has deep-set eyes, and he’s almost a foot…
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Machine Age
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost My husband loves machines. He often displayed considerably more affection for them than he did for his children when they were growing up. Of course, to be fair, machines seldom talked back or refused to show…
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The Graduation Wish
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Son #3 in an oncologist. Last winter his three-year-old son asked for “comfy chair in comfy shade” for Christmas. His parents searched the internet and eventually found a cabana-style chair designed for children. It has two…
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The Treasures We Treasure
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost When Son #1 was four years old, we took him and his sister to Carlsbad Caverns National Park. An independent soul from the day he was born, Son #1 walked our whole two-and-a-half-mile trip by himself….
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The Words We Hear
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in..” Robert Frost When Son #6 turned twelve years old, he began giving me grief about having to go to church every Sunday. “It’s boring and a waste of time,” he complained. “We hear the same stuff over and…
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Home at Last
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost I’ve thought a good deal about what it means to be ”home” over the years. My parents always called Las Vegas “home,” though most of their more than 50 years of marriage was spent in other…
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With a Voice of Singing
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost After several years of pestering, when I was 12, my parents bought me a piano. It was a pretty beat-up, used upright that some family didn’t want to take with them when they moved. I don’t…
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School’s Out
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Most of our summer vacations were connected to visits with family. A trip to see my sister provided a tornado in Biloxi. James’s dad lived in Houston, so one visit there involved a hurricane. Las Vegas…
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Black and White
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost I joined the Girl Scouts when I was in second grade—we were living on Mather Air Force Base in Sacramento, California. Of course, I wasn’t old enough to be a full-fledged Scout. Instead, I became a…
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Three Simple Rules
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost This week Son #4 initiated a question on our family text string about Son #2. I don’t know his motivation for the request, but I was pretty shocked when one of my children brought up a…
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Dirt Roads and Navajo Tacos
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” Robert Frost When my husband finished college, he and a friend contracted with a Navajo businessman to build a full-service restaurant/meeting room in Crownpoint, New Mexico, a tiny Native American community at almost 7,000 feet elevation in the…
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Check Out a Book
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” Robert Frost I’ve always loved to read. My very earliest childhood memories include being tucked in bed while my dad sat beside my brother and me as he read aloud The Jungle Book or tales from Hans Christian…
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The Volunteers
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” Robert Frost My granddaughter, who is a BYU student, has been staying with us off and on since the Utah Governor ordered a “Stay Home, Stay Safe” proclamation in the face of the COVID 19 pandemic, and all…
