Wild Voorhies Pack

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost I woke up Easter morning thinking about Brother #1. Years ago I told him that if he died and left me, I’d strangle him. He did. So, I guess he has that to look forward to…

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost I’ve had a good deal of experience with health care facilities. One memorable summer, I took one relation or another to our local Insta-care every week for nine weeks in a row–eight different kids and one…

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost The fog that sometimes settles into the valley during winter inversions always reminds me of the day I was pulled over by a cop for running a stop sign on the way to work. Now that…

Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost My friend performed a wedding ceremony on Saturday. She said it wasn’t at all what the couple anticipated when they got engaged. No large group of friends and family; no reception; certainly, no exotic honeymoon. Just the young…

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Robert Frost When my sons were teenagers, they used to play this ridiculous game they called “Buck, Buck.” By some sort of psychic connection, boys would amble from up and down the street to congregate in groups of…

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Last week Sons # 1, 3, and 5 loaded up their mountain bikes and, with couple of buddies, headed to the annual Sedona Bike Festival in Arizona. Fierce, magnificent scenery, trails across the spectrum of difficulty,…

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost When Daughter #1 interviewed for a spot in graduate school, she told me one of the professors asked how she planned to pay for it. She replied that her mother had promised her that, “if need…

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost When I was three, I had long, silky hair which hung down my back in luxurious curls. It was a color my dad told me was “cow-eyed brown.” At the time I thought it was a…

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost Now that I’ve lived awhile, I recognize that parents in every generation despair about some popular cultural trend in which their teenagers are involved. When I was young, we were all turning into degenerates because of…

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost I’ve heard it said that “all God’s creatures have a place in the choir.” Actually, I never really thought about it until I married. Mostly, because I hadn’t had a lot of contact with some of God’s…