Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost I was in Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago for my sister-in-law’s wedding. She’s been a widow for several years and has found a good man who had lost his wife and was lonely, too. At our…
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Someone asked me this week what I wanted for Mother’s Day. After considerable thought, I decided what I really wanted was Clarity. I just want reassurance that my life has made sense–that I haven’t wasted all this time…
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost A week or two ago I got a new job. No, I wasn’t looking for employment, but my husband and Daughter #1–out of desperation–were forced to designate me as the family Emergency Substitute Doorstop. It’s an unpaid position…
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Two people I love each lost a parent in the last two weeks. One was a mother; the other a father. Both were elderly and ill, so their deaths were expected–at least intellectually, but losing someone who is…
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost My younger brother, divorced and with a grown son, called me a couple of years ago. “I’d like to take you up on your offer,” he said. I knew immediately what he meant. Long ago I had told…
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost I bought a new car this week. My old car ran a red light and plowed into a vehicle crossing the intersection from the opposite direction. In my own defense, l was not the driver at…
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost My husband doesn’t have many delayed-gratification strategies, so for our more than 50-year marriage, when he thinks of something he needs to tell someone, he writes it down. This seemed like a reasonable problem-solving tactic—until it became obvious…
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost The six-week session of the Utah Legislature opens next week. When I was young, it never occurred to me that my far-from-influential, middle-class voice mattered. All that changed in 1977 when I, along with several thousand other LDS…
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost New Year’s Eve at an extended family wedding reception, I was amused to overhear the photographer explaining to the videographer how he got the job taking photos for the wedding. “Well,” he said, “My sister’s husband’s brother’s sister-in-law’s…
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost This morning I realized I’d forgotten a load of clothes I put in the dryer yesterday. When I dug them out, I laughed as I showed Daughter #1–in that batch were exactly the same number of aprons as…