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Franklin Chronicle: July 2013

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Sunday, July 21, 2013. T-Ball: "The Best Free Entertainment In Town". The former president of Little League in Lubbock, Texas once told me that t-ball was the "Best Free entertainment in town." He was speaking to me as a parent then, and he was right, but what he didn't tell me was that coaching is where the real fun happens. Sunday, July 7, 2013. The problem with zoo photos (and vacation photos in general). A few weeks ago we met our good friends The Grovers. There are plenty of built in photo opportuni...

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Franklin Chronicle: June 2013

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Monday, June 3, 2013. Flash back to summer fun when we lived in Lubbock! Today is our first official day of Summer and after a long month of May we are ready to have FUN! The kids and I came up with this list, in no particular order. We plan to write it out on a big piece of butcher paper hung on the wall in the kitchen. Ready, set, play! Go to the Springville splash pad. New park every week. Spanish Fork splash pad. Hike up to the gypsum deposit. Go to the farmers market. Host a Waffle Off. Go to a rodeo.

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Franklin Chronicle: July 2014

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Friday, July 25, 2014. Here's a shot of the country lane that leads o Randall's farm. This is the Methodist Church in Stroud where some of the family attended church. In Liverpool, our subterranean Pod hotel. A fun street in Liverpool. This fantastic looking building is the old headquarters of the White Start shipping company. That's the same company that owned the Titanic. Between the research and the conference in London, we spent a day in North Whales on a whistle stop bus tour. These narrow streets i...

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Franklin Chronicle: August 2013

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Tuesday, August 6, 2013. Road Trip 2013: Mid-point Update. We're on day 11 of a seventeen-day road trip through Idaho, Oregon, and Washington and I wanted to do a partial update on the people we've met and the things we've seen. The trip is part family vacation and part research trip for the book I'm working on. Day One - Lava Hot springs. The hills around Lava Hot Springs remind me a bit of scenes out of The Sound of Music. We stopped in for dinner with our cousins Patti and Nolyn Johnson (oldest son of...

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Franklin Chronicle: November 2014

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Tuesday, November 11, 2014. Fall is upon us. Fall at our house almost always means forts of some size. This one the boys slept in a few weeks ago. And it means more bread baking, which means that the KitchenAid sits on the floor. It's missing a rubber knob on the bottom and if we left it on the counter for an eight-minute kneading cycle it would vibrate itself onto the floor. Fall also means first-day-of-school shots. Ginny really wanted to go with the boys. Here's our portion of the Franklin family at U...

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Franklin Chronicle: April 2014

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Wednesday, April 23, 2014. A snapshot of the past two weeks:. Melissa breaks her collar bone playing fetch with the dog. My front left wheel breaks off my car while I'm driving on campus. We get word that Melissa's grandmother is on her deathbed. I hit two deer at once time while driving in Southern Utah. Monday April 21st - Today -. Nolan and Ian get the stomach flu and spend all day Tuesday and most of early morning Wednesday throwing up. Faced with the question of how Melissa will survive on a long-pl...

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Franklin Chronicle: On Portland cityscapes, Texas cotton fields, and Wasatch mountains.

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Thursday, April 9, 2015. On Portland cityscapes, Texas cotton fields, and Wasatch mountains. I sat next to a man today on the airplane who runs cost estimates for highway projects. He was born in Utah, has lived in Utah all his life, and he told me he will probably die in Utah. Part of me wondered if it wasn't a shame for a person to stay in one place for their entire life. Another part of me wondered why I have occasionally felt a lack of grounding.like a man without a country. When I lived in Lubbock, ...

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Franklin Chronicle: Franklin Family Photo shoot 2014

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Sunday, February 8, 2015. Franklin Family Photo shoot 2014. One cold morning in lat December. We convinced the boys to put on some coordinating outfits and head out into the snow for a family photo shoot. They all had great attitudes, but the photos don't lie.it was COLD! You can Photoshop red cheeks. Bunt you can't Photoshop clenched fists and chattering teeth. We all took turns getting our photos taken by the big tree in the front of the house while everyone else waited inside. The Jon and Alex Report.

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Franklin Chronicle: Five books I'm grateful for

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Thursday, April 16, 2015. Five books I'm grateful for. Micro-summary: Love God, and wrestle with your kids. Or is it love your kids, and wrestle with God? 2 All the Pretty Horses. Micro-summary: Justice is the most important, and least attainable virtue in the world. Oh, and you're not a real cowboy unless you can break sixteen wild horses in four days while all the local villagers watch. 3 The House on Mango Street. 5 Notes from no Man's land. Click on the "play audio sample button). Links, Sites and Ot...

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Franklin Chronicle: October 2013

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Tuesday, October 22, 2013. We didn't bring a camera to any of the early games, or any of the midseason games, or really any of the late season games, but we did, on the last day of the season, finally remember to take a few photographs. A look at Nolan here will tell you how cold it was. It was grand fun to watch Nolan. Soccer is a no pressure sport in Springville (unlike Lubbock. Not too close though. He is only ten. Monday, October 21, 2013. Some more photos from our summer trip. At the oregon coast.