Being Home is about the spirit of place, the juncture of memory and emotions. It is different for everyone; it is different for members of the same family, and it most likely has nothing to do with where you were born or grew up. Award-winning essayists Sam Pickering and Bob Kunzinger selected the essays for this collection, selecting essays about being home where setting becomes character, where time becomes the antagonist, and where we make our most important discoveries. These are not quarantine, stay in place, Covid-19 essays.

CONTRIBUTORS:

Johnnie Bernhard – "Ignorance or Innocence"
Rick Campbell – "Celibacy and Ancestry"
Maryah Converse – "Becoming Bedouin"
Susan Delgado Watts – "Being Home"
John Flynn – "Living Between the Leaves"
Debra Frank – "The Accident House"
Karin Hedetniemi – "Inheritance"
Anndee Hochman – "2 Rms, Family View: The Ones We Call Home"
Richard Holinger – "Cornwall Village"
Jamie Hughes – "Making Room"
Robert Iulo – "The Neighborhood"*
Kyle Ingrid Johnson – "The House and Its Moments"*
Judy Johnson – "My Brothers"
Deb Liggett – "Marking Our Place"
Mel Livatino – "Going Home Again"
Geoffrey Martin – "Birdland"
Robert Miltner – "Into the Bargain"
Vicky Oliver – "Alice in Motherland"
Lea Page – "Everything and the Kitchen Sink"
Rhonda Ray – "My Rock"
Claude Clayton Smith – "Blue Heaven"
Marsha Lynn Smith – "4 Generations of Black Hair Matters"
Bill Stifler – "Not From Around Here"
Elizabeth Templeman – "In Place"
Elaine Terranova – "Being Home"
Lee Zacharias – "On a Rocky Inland Coast"
Madelaine Zadik – "Triumph"