Wild Voorhies Pack

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost I have photos of Sons #1 and #2, each aged 18-24 months old, wearing the same outfit—two years apart. The pictures show both boys fast asleep, face-down in their mashed potatoes on two different Thanksgiving Days….

Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Son #5 took a half hour nap during his AP Calculus test. He still passed the exam. Not unusual behavior for Son #5. He endured a good deal of ribbing from his older siblings about that nap, and…

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” Robert Frost I remember watching The Wizard of Oz on the big screen in the movie theater. I’m not sure how old I was, but I was terrified of the flying monkeys. How could you defend yourself against…

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Kids know stuff–at least the ones I’m acquainted with seem to. I’m always taken aback when out of nowhere a preschooler accurately forecasts something about his future, or shrewdly analyses the threads of her current emotional…

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Last week my husband stole a chicken. I was headed to a school board meeting when I spied him trying to heft it into the back of our Nissan as I passed the park across from…

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost When we got married my husband told me, “I promise you may get angry with me, but you’ll never be bored.” For a man who is not particularly self-reflective, that observation turned out to be astonishingly…

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Daughter #1 follows at least two commercial bakeries which specialize in her favorite dessert—pie—on Instagram. When she was in St. George last, she made an extra 40 mile round trip to visit one of the bakeries…

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost My husband’s current hobby is gold prospecting. He loves wandering out in the hills, trekking through stream beds looking for tiny flecks of the yellow treasure. Sometimes he brings home two or three 5-gallon buckets of…

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost We dropped my grandson off for his first year at Snow College yesterday. He may or may not have had a tear or two glistening in his eyes as we disappeared around the corner. It’s a…

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost There are many legends about the ability of mystical objects to draw people to them and invoke the power to change people’s lives forever. In the story of King Arthur, for example, a young boy pulls…