Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost This Sunday morning when I went to church, the Madrigals from our local high school were seated on the stand. Fully masked, they sang “Angels We Have Heard on High” as part of our Christmas celebration….
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost My grandmother was 29 years-old the day she almost burned to death. She’d had her fifth child–a beautiful little girl–only a handful of days before. My grandfather, principal at Pioche Elementary, had taken my mother and her sister…
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost I knew Mitt Romney when I was a kid. Of course, he wasn’t a U. S. Senator back then; he was just an annoying Boy Scout who, with his buddies, pushed his way into the refreshment…
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost A couple of days ago, Daughter #2 called me and asked me to edit a letter she was writing for work. She’s a school nurse, and it was her job to inform a high school football…
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost The first time Son #2 ran away, he was barefooted, wearing nothing but shorts and a t-shirt. It was early December, and it was snowing lightly outside. I don’t remember what upset him or even how…
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost A lot of teachers went back to work last week–a majority of them women, in my district, at least. In an ironic turn of events, many national league sports teams refused to play in legitimate and…
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….
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…
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 piano. It was a pretty beat-up, used upright some family didn’t want to take with them when they moved. I don’t remember what…
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…