Category Archives: Family

Home Color

Posted on November 3, 2008 by K

Postcards from the home front: Sometimes there’s a lot to say. Sometimes there’s just a lot to show: Autumn is so family for me, perhaps because winter is coming on, and you want to bundle up in your safest, warmest … Continue reading →

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Casting Bread

Posted on October 18, 2008 by K

           My mother used to make bread.  By hand.  What I mean is that there was a period of time when she did this.  I don’t remember a lot about it—a very large metal bowl, the … Continue reading →

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Rivers of Drowsy Aspen

Posted on September 21, 2008 by K

One of the greatest delights of our lives is to ride the mountains in autumn.  Every year I’m scared we won’t get up there.  But every year, we manage to sneak away (if you can call it sneaking when you’re … Continue reading →

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How We Watch Football

Posted on September 2, 2008 by K

Times change. We change. Football doesn’t change much, but how we watch it surely does. Our house used to be the place for BYU football. All the kids there. Yelling and jumping around. Saying bad words (that would be me; … Continue reading →

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Hay, Marketing and a Little Light Housekeeping

Posted on July 21, 2008 by K

            The housekeeping part will come first: you may recall how every half-year to year I do a “Still want to be on my list?” plea?  I don’t like to think I’m sending to anybody who’d … Continue reading →

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Like a Chapter Book –

Posted on July 12, 2008 by K

This is not an illustrated tale.  It should have been, but we were doing instead of recording it all.  So for those of you who have been sliding by, just looking at the pictures, this will be a disappointment.  For … Continue reading →

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Not so much a lie as a miscalculation

Posted on July 6, 2008 by K

I guess there is more to life after-all??? A little more, anyway.   This is why sultan should always be with us: 1. He is the right sort of dog. Proof: on the night of the 4th, the air was … Continue reading →

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GBWYTWMA: concerning journeys

Posted on July 3, 2008 by K

  Sometimes life gets a little . . . heavy.         And the day finally was upon us. On its eve, much to my distress, I learned that packing with Cam had only been a preliminary packing. … Continue reading →

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Vanishing act

Posted on July 2, 2008 by K

 [And now, a political message from our sponsor]              I need Jimmy Stewart.  I need him bad.   You remember him in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington?  Just a regular guy, a Boy Scout leader, who finds government thrust upon him … Continue reading →

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Sometimes it’s wild, and sometimes it’s holy –

Posted on June 26, 2008 by K

            A note to everyone who might have mailed me and gotten no answer: a response will come.  It’s not that I am willingly neglectful.  It’s that I’m months behind.  So I have a bunch of … Continue reading →

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