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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” Robert Frost I love my son-in-law. He only lives a few doors away and two or three times a week he drops in to talk. We cover politics, religion, child-rearing, animals, and gardening—to name a few. One summer…
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost I have a marble rolling pin in my “weapons” drawer. There are also metal skewers for baked potatoes, leftover chop sticks from Chinese takeout’s, and a couple of heavy trivets which are intended as protection for…
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost I’ve lived a long time, but the pictures of citizens storming the seat of our government in Washington, D. C., this week came close to breaking my heart. Years ago, I spent a summer between my sophomore and…
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost An odd thing happens to me sometimes when it snows. I remember standing at the tiny grave of my friend’s six-month-old baby who died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. I can’t recall if she wore black,…
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Christmas is upon us. It doesn’t look like the familiar event where families get together and celebrate the day with piles of presents and the spectacular results of hours in the kitchen. Many families are scaling…