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My company wants me to move to California: I don't like California; I like it where I am!; By Cary Tennis Jul 11, 2008
Flip this house. Please!: After two decades of renting, I finally bought my own home. What the hell was I thinking?; By Steve Almond May 23, 2008
Our house is so messy my husband's threatening to leave: I hate to clean and so does he. Are we crazy?; By Cary Tennis Jan 17, 2008
An elderly salesman terrorized me in front of my kids!: He propositioned me and threatened me and wouldn't leave until I signed the contract!; By Cary Tennis Oct 24, 2007
Will my family drag us down?: My wife and I could live anywhere and have great success as doctors, but my mother and sister are ill and need help at home.; By Cary Tennis Oct 16, 2007
My favorite pornography: I used to pore over the Sunday real estate ads and imagine how happy I'd be in that beach cottage on Antigua. But they don't call to me anymore.; By Garrison Keillor Oct 3, 2007
I'm ashamed to be ashamed of my father: He's a Vietnam vet and a troubled man whose house is falling down around him.; By Cary Tennis Jun 5, 2007
I'm a small-town girl dreaming of the big-city lights: Should I get married and give up my dreams, or break my engagement, leave this two-bit town and try to live the life I want?; By Cary Tennis Apr 6, 2007
My walls are covered with my mother's paintings: My mom left all her artwork to me, but it's not really my aesthetic. Would I be a terrible daughter if I took them down?; By Cary Tennis Apr 5, 2007
I can't control my murderous thoughts: Someone took a dump on my early-'90s blue subcompact. I feel targeted and I don't know what to do with my anger.; By Cary Tennis Feb 22, 2007
Should I give my boyfriend the key to my apartment?: I know it would be convenient, and we've been together seven years, but I just don't want to.; By Cary Tennis Feb 12, 2007
I bought a house and now I'm crying every day: I think I made a big mistake. Home ownership isn't what I thought it would be.; By Cary Tennis Jan 26, 2007
My lover and I have a secret house: Neither our kids nor my husband knows of our bungalow -- and I'd like to keep it that way.; By Cary Tennis Jan 22, 2007
My husband's father is crowding me out of my own house: As a U.S. Marine, my husband is away on duty, but that doesn't mean there's room for his dad here. There isn't!; By Cary Tennis Dec 6, 2006
Summer vacation: Decrying harpy pundits and lying lawmakers is tiring work. If the president can improve his approval ratings by taking a break, maybe I can too.; By Garrison Keillor Jun 21, 2006
Where is my home?: I've uprooted myself over and over again in a short time. Now I don't know where I belong.; By Cary Tennis Apr 19, 2006
My mattress, myself: Distant cities may beckon, but nothing beats the soothing routine of domestic life.; By Garrison Keillor Mar 8, 2006
Our house: Journalist Winifred Gallagher talks about the urge to nest, suburban sprawl, and whether George Washington owned the first McMansion.; By Sarah Goldstein Feb 24, 2006
Carondelet Street or bust: Driving all night back into occupied New Orleans, a man finds exhausted cops, a stray dog named Sancho Panza, and rotten chicken in his Katrina-damaged house. But nothing will keep him away from the city where the beer never stops flowing.; By Billy Sothern Sep 19, 2005
Letters: Readers respond to "Homing Instinct: Oh Yes You Can!" by Cary Tennis, and "The Unexamined Thug Life," by Janelle Brown; Nov 8, 2002
Oh yes you can!: We had no savings, hefty credit-card debt, and middling self-esteem. Still, we got the house.; By Cary Tennis Nov 7, 2002
Come on in, the water's fine: You really should buy a house. I mean it. Part 1.; By Cary Tennis Sep 19, 2002
Paralyzed by perfection: I hone my own nutty ideas for a remodeling cure.; By Cary Tennis Sep 5, 2002
This is not my beautiful house: We go back to old homes to reinhabit past selves. We don't own them anymore, but they belong to us nonetheless.; By Carol Lynn Mithers May 14, 2002
Trailer, sweet trailer: We are transients with no basement, no garden, no clothesline.; By Kate Convissor Jun 19, 2001

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