Home (A Field Guide)

On Memoir: All the places that were supposed to be home but never could be

I challenged myself to keep this piece under four hundred words. It was difficult as brevity is not my strong suit. There is so much more I could say, and still, I wanted this to be enough.

Home (A Field Guide)

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Walk backward into your childhood. The house on Michelle Lane in California’s forgotten desert where your mother looks like fire wearing a moss-g…