Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost There’s a famous clip on Instagram of Navy Admiral McRaven delivering a commencement speech to the class of 2014 at the University of Texas at Austin, in which he encourages graduates to start their day by making their…
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost My Uncle Tom was a Down Syndrome child. He was born a year before I was, when my grandmother was in her late forties, and it was at least two full generations before ultrasounds became a routine part…
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost A week or two ago, I went to the end-of-the-school-year program for a granddaughter, who is in third grade. It wasn’t an ordinary program. In fact, I didn’t understand a single word. Not one. That’s because it was…
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Son #2 died 17 years ago from the complications of a lifetime of drug addiction. Last Friday, I watched his son graduate from college. I’m pretty sure my son was looking down from Heaven. And smiling. My grandson’s…
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost I cooked fried eggs on our new stove in our newly remodeled kitchen yesterday. Not as easy as it sounds. Technology thumbed its nose at me and leaped ahead with something called a radiant cooktop. A shiny, oblong…
When you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost This month, I had occasion to take Robert Frost at his word. I was about to be homeless, and I spent a few weeks feeling out the possibilities of housing for my husband and me with several of my children. All of them…
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost It was 3 o’clock in the morning when the phone rang. Nora groaned and rolled over, grabbing the phone off the charger and trying to focus her eyes on caller ID. But she needn’t have bothered. There was…
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost I went to a funeral this week. It was not for an old friend or a treasured family member. In fact, the funeral was for a person whom I had met formally only once and since then have…
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Last week I re-read The Hobbit. It wasn’t that I didn’t remember the story. I taught The Hobbit every semester for several years in the only high school Science Fiction/Fantasy class offered in Jordan School District. But I…
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to let you in. Robert Frost My dad, who spent the last 20 years of his working life after he retired from the Air Force as a family therapist, had been sitting in uncommon silence staring into space one evening just before I left…