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Open Air
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost This week one of my daughters-in-law (the mother of four young children) admitted on the family text string that she “told her kids she was running to the store, but really grabbed a cinnamon roll, jumped into her…
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We Are All the Winners
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost This blog entry should be titled “Things I Can’t Do.” Settle in. There’s a long list. I’ve already admitted I can’t paint, and I can’t crochet. And I don’t do math. Or play basketball. (Although to be fair,…
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Engulfed by Love
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost My grandparents on both my mom’s and my dad’s sides lived in Las Vegas. When I was a kid, every two years or so our family would make the trek across the country from whichever military installation where…
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Family of the Heart
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Son #1 and his wife just celebrated their 28th wedding anniversary. They met at BYU Idaho. She thought he was arrogant (he was); he thought she was brilliant (she is). I don’t know much about the…
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A “Human” Dilemma
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost My ten-year-old grandson has a problem. Last week he climbed into his carpool ride home from school shaking his head in serious fourth-grade angst. According to the volunteer mom driving that day, he was literally wringing…
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Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost I awoke several times this week in the middle of the night with uneasy dreams. I’m sure my subconscious was spurred into high gear by more than two years of disruptive pandemic, a seemingly needless war in Ukraine…
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One of Everything Ever Thrown Away
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Son #1 has spent several full days in the last month cleaning out his elderly mother-in-law’s home and getting it ready for sale. (She and I are not that far apart in age, so I am…
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A Light in the Dark
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Sometime during the last decade or so, I found a yellowed sheet of lined paper crammed in the back of a ringed binder with a hand-written list of my future goals written during the year I was seventeen….
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Boys: The Secret No One Tells You
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost My husband used to say that he felt sorry for people “who have a girl and a boy and think they have one of every kind.” It’s a message most child-development researchers should take into account…
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Pick A Book, Any Book
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost This week, after only 100 pages in, I tossed a book in the trash. If my kids are reading this, I’m pretty sure they just dropped their phones or tablets in shock. Over the years they…
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The Rhythm of Friendship
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost My sophomore year at BYU, I bought a used sewing machine. It was an old Necchi with a pink carrying case which reeked of the 1950s. It has been my dependable companion for my entire married…
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The Secret Switch
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Son #6 has a new baby who is not happy about his current living arrangements. The baby sees no reason to use his bed when he has perfectly healthy parents who can bounce and pat him regardless of…
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Persist in Doing
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost When I was seventeen and a senior in high school, my dad was transferred to Albuquerque, New Mexico. There weren’t many Latter-Day Saint members in the community then, but there was a small group of teenagers whose parents…
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A Resolution I Can Keep
Home is the place where, when you have to there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost I’m not good at New Year’s Resolutions. I’m a believer in change and improvement, but I lack the gene which influences consistency. I make a goal; I work at it awhile; I see a shiny object in…
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Hallelujah!
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost I learned the Hallelujah Chorus in the back seat of a two-toned blue and white ’56 or ’57 Chevy sedan on one of our many trips driving over Donner Pass in a blizzard as we headed…
