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The Hallmark Dilemma
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Daughter #1 and I try to watch a couple of Hallmark movies a week. For her, the advantage is that she can answer the average 100 daily emails she receives and still keep track of the plot. Because…
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The Stink of True Friendship
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost I never expected to be one a first name basis with a skunk, but then there have been a lot of creatures my husband has introduced me to which I had carefully avoided previous to marrying…
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A Whale of a Tale
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Son #1 says when he was 18, Daughter #1 woke him up in the middle of the night and asked him if he wanted to go to Alaska for the summer? He had been dead asleep, but he…
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The Twilight Zone
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost ‘Tis the season for families to visit amusement parks with children racing from ride to ride, seeking adrenaline and nausea simultaneously. Risk-taking has never been part of my nature. I’ve always had a secret, nagging fear in the…
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A Love Letter to My Home
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost I love the fierce, unyielding deserts of my Nevada birth. I love traveling from state to state without a guard at every border crossing. I love the Navajo tacos and spicy chili relleños of my Albuquerque…
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The Luck of the Irish
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost My shamrocks are not looking good. For several years they have lived in an aging terra cotta pot next to the windows which overlook my kitchen sink. But the heat wave of the last couple of…
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Gold is Seldom All that Glitters
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Son #1’s wife once described her life with him as if she were tied to a rope, bouncing along the rails behind him–the engine who is speeding down the tracks. I know the feeling. He was born in…
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Sunday Service
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Sometime during my teen years, my dad came home with a mimeograph machine which he had bought at the air base’s version of Goodwill or Deseret Industries. He loved prowling around the shelves of stuff left by airmen…
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Flying High
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Kudos to two of my grandchildren who graduated from high school this week—both having conquered brutal cases of ‘senioritis’, a severely infectious disease for which no one seems to be able to find a successful vaccine….
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Shift Work
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost A couple of years ago, the wife of Son #6 asked my three year-old granddaughter what she wanted to be when she grew up. “You could be a doctor like your aunt or uncle, or a…
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A Snake in the Grass
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Spoiler Alert: Today we are going to talk about snakes. Again. Sigh. My husband read me a section of an article in National Geographic Magazine a couple of years ago which postulated that our human fear/revulsion…
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The River and the Racoon
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost The day after Daughter #1 graduated from high school, we mounted an expedition to Disneyworld in Florida. Taking 10 people across the country took serious long range planning. It began at Christmas with a mysterious box almost three…
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Classroom Drama
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost About halfway through my teaching career, I got an email from a parent who threatened to sue me. She didn’t like the curriculum I was using to teach beginning journalism, and even worse, she didn’t like the grade…
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Just Keep Swimming, Swimming, Swimming
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost We once had a bi-polar goldfish. Fortunately, Daughter #1 was getting a graduate degree in psychology, so after observing the fish for several days, she diagnosed his/her? aberrant behavior without difficulty. Definitely bi-polar. I sympathized with…
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The Stranger in the Snow
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost I’m a Coke drinker. And have been for about 35 years. Before that I was happy to go with Pepsi or Dr. Pepper or any number of name-brand imitations usually based on what was cheapest. But all that…
