A couple of years ago, he entered the clogging contest at the World Chicken Festival in London. The prize was 10 lottery tickets. After a while, the house is filled with young voices. Cheyenne has an urgent fashion question involving Britney Spears. The comfort level is high.
Pork chops sizzle on the stove.
Soon enough, Cheyenne and Olivia will don aprons to help their mom make chocolate-chip cookies. Domestic bliss never looked more blissful. Like the characters in his novel, the Houses are right at home, right where they are. And the novel, about an orphan creating a family, probably speaks more to family values than any Republican stump speech. House's own family roots are Irish, German and Cherokee.