Wild Voorhies Pack

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Son #1 has spent several full days in the last month cleaning out his elderly mother-in-law’s home and getting it ready for sale. (She and I are not that far apart in age, so I am…

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost My husband used to say that he felt sorry for people “who have a girl and a boy and think they have one of every kind.” It’s a message most child-development researchers should take into account…

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost This week, after only 100 pages in, I tossed a book in the trash. If my kids are reading this, I’m pretty sure they just dropped their phones or tablets in shock. Over the years they…

Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Christmas gift giving at my house can be a mine field. Because my husband has always stepped to the music of a “different drummer—however measured or far away,” as Thoreau enjoined almost 200 years ago, it’s almost impossible…

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” Robert Frost When I was young in the years after WWII, military families were caught in a weird vortex of the American social hierarchy. Soldiers home from the front often had unique and cutting edge technical knowledge and…

Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost When I was newly married, my uncle, a successful real estate broker, told me that the best investment a young couple could make was to buy a house. It took a couple of years, but we saved a…

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost I don’t sing much at church anymore. One—I’m old and my voice is undependable; two—I don’t hear well so sometimes I completely loose track of the pitch (highly annoying to my seatmates!); and three—my breathing is…

Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost When I was a young mom, I’d occasionally watch General Conference and wonder what it would be like to be one of those women who speak at the pulpit? My first thought was always that I’d have to…

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to let you in. Robert Frost One of my favorite mystery series is Laurie King’s modern re-telling of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The books are riveting exploits without gratuitous sex or violence—unless you count the bees. In the original stories Arthur…

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost I used to know the location of virtually every horse chestnut tree between Provo and Kaysville, Utah.  A weird expertise, I admit, but eccentricity is my husband’s—and by extension—my specialty. Full grown horse chestnut trees produce…