Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you i Robert Frost This week I forwarded a sweet article from the Washington Post to a number of women I love—mostly immediate family members (https://apple.news/Amxc6lmktR–Nlvw2wVYY9Q). It was about a wedding dress which each of eight brides in a single family had…
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Sunday morning we followed an elderly neighbor whizzing along the sidewalk in her motorized wheelchair enjoying the sunshine and headed for church. As she came around the corner, she was stymied by an unexpected stretch of…
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost This week my 19-year-old granddaughter asked me what “that huge plant right at the front of the garden” was? Always alarmed at any threat to my garden, I asked, “Why? Is it dying?” “No. there’s a…
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in Robert Frost This weekend Utah celebrates July 24th–Pioneer Day. It marks the date that Brigham Young declared “this” (the Salt Lake Valley) as “the place,”–a safe retreat for the converts who were fleeing persecution in the East after practicing the…
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost For Christmas last winter my kids got together and gave me a two-week cruise to the British Isles. As a veteran teacher of literature, it was an adventure I’d long looked forward to. We spent time in Ireland,…
Home is the place where when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Yesterday my three-year-old grandson stared at a large-framed photograph of a smiling little boy with big brown eyes and long eyelashes which has been hanging on my bedroom wall for many years. “I know who that…
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost I have a lot of cousins. I was going to count them, but I got bored. There are somewhere in the range of 40—that doesn’t include 2nd cousins, a goodly number of whom I grew to love as…
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost We have five newly hatched baby birds in our barbecue. It’s not the first time. Several years ago, a robin squeezed through the tiny air vents on the sides of an old propane grill, which my husband had…
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Sometimes if I awake suddenly during the wee hours of the morning, I think I hear my mother rustling around in the other room as she begins a new day. Then I recall that soon we will be…
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost This week one of my daughters-in-law (the mother of four young children) admitted on the family text string that she “told her kids she was running to the store, but really grabbed a cinnamon roll, jumped into her…