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Dec. 26 is the oddest day

Imagine this: You are the younger sibling in the British royal family. That's what Dec. 26 must feel like. That oldest sibling, the one in line to become king, has been ballyhooed about since his birth. Articles have been written about him, and experts on all things royal concentrate on what 4-year-old King To Be is like, or 8-year-old King To Be, or King To Be as he enters puberty. The younger sibling is forced to watch it all. He or she must smile and wave properly in all those family gatherings in which everyone must smile and wave properly. But that younger sibling knows that the most that will be said about his or her ranking in the pecking order is "Edward will begin school next year" or "little Beatrice acted in a kindergarten Christmas pageant yesterday." We've heard nothing but Christmas this and Christmas that for months. We saw holiday decorations in retail stores as early as early October. People waiting for that big day stuck to budgets or f

How would you finish this: "Home is .."?

I was walking down the main street of tiny Minturn, Colorado, a few weeks ago and noticed a saying painted above a front porch. It started with "Home is ..." I will give you the rest of that sentence later, but those first words are a perfect place to begin a conversation. How would you finish off "Home is ..."? That could be a loaded question that looks simple on the surface. All my suggestions would be positive statements because my home is wonderful, and the home in which I grew up in was strong and loving. But it depends on what your home is or was. Here's some possible statements I'd paint above my front porch. Home is Where Love Covers All the Drama Home is Where Comfort Resides Home is Where False Image Fails Home is Where Our Children Are Always Welcome Home is the Safest Place Home is Where You Matter I could go on, but it would be more of the same. My idea of home was founded on the place where my dad brought the ethics and toughn