What if, even when things fall apart, there is still a home to inhabit? If we’re willing to shift away from the idea of home as a place or house or even a person, there is a possibility...

You are a writer, and therefore there is an irritating holiness to your mission. For you, every object in each drawer is infused with a certain quality, an accumulation of time, irony, and...

And somewhere along that circuitous route that brought us here, we’ve learned that Dorothy was right.

His instruction to his partner was clear: Keep going. There is more. Don’t stay here. What we built together will be your home, and in that home there will be room for more life, more...

to let my eyes wonder where the thickest shine sat

Indoors, I like to not only document the rooms to inspire others for their own spaces, but to highlight the small moments to give the viewer a sense of the quotidian activities.

If I’m on the hunt for lessons in my family tree—lessons on how to abide and who I ought to be—here is one: To make the world a better place.

We all know that some clichés exist because they are true, and I cannot make my peace with the inevitability of change until I accept that it is the only constant. If the sea has taught me...

My childhood felt a lot like climbing onto a Ferris wheel that had lost control. It kept flailing around, in directions chosen by a pair of unpredictable scientists trying to study...

In the years since, I have often thought of his huge full-throated howl, his vigorous ear-flapping, his table-clearing tail, the long, high lonesome ahooooo he made sometimes.