At the height of the real estate bubble, I was desperate to buy a home. I had no idea what kind of trouble I was borrowing.
By Mary Elizabeth Williams Feb 28, 2009
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I don't like California; I like it where I am!
By Cary Tennis
July 11, 2008
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After two decades of renting, I finally bought my own home. What the hell was I thinking?
By Steve Almond
May 23, 2008
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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
October 3, 2007
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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
June 21, 2006
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I hate to clean and so does he. Are we crazy?
By Cary Tennis
January 17, 2008
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He propositioned me and threatened me and wouldn't leave until I signed the contract!
By Cary Tennis
October 24, 2007
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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
October 16, 2007
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He's a Vietnam vet and a troubled man whose house is falling down around him.
By Cary Tennis
June 5, 2007
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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
April 6, 2007
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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
April 5, 2007
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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
February 22, 2007
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I know it would be convenient, and we've been together seven years, but I just don't want to.
By Cary Tennis
February 12, 2007
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I think I made a big mistake. Home ownership isn't what I thought it would be.
By Cary Tennis
January 26, 2007
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Neither our kids nor my husband knows of our bungalow -- and I'd like to keep it that way.
By Cary Tennis
January 22, 2007
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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
December 6, 2006
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I've uprooted myself over and over again in a short time. Now I don't know where I belong.
By Cary Tennis
April 19, 2006
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Distant cities may beckon, but nothing beats the soothing routine of domestic life.
By Garrison Keillor
March 8, 2006
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Journalist Winifred Gallagher talks about the urge to nest, suburban sprawl, and whether George Washington owned the first McMansion.
By Sarah Goldstein
February 24, 2006
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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
September 19, 2005
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Readers respond to "Homing Instinct: Oh Yes You Can!" by Cary Tennis, and "The Unexamined Thug Life," by Janelle Brown
November 8, 2002
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We had no savings, hefty credit-card debt, and middling self-esteem. Still, we got the house.
By Cary Tennis
November 7, 2002
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You really should buy a house. I mean it. Part 1.
By Cary Tennis
September 19, 2002
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I hone my own nutty ideas for a remodeling cure.
By Cary Tennis
September 5, 2002
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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
Scenes from a housing boom
My company wants me to move to California 
Flip this house. Please!
My favorite pornography
Summer vacation
Where is my home?
My mattress, myself
Our house
Carondelet Street or bust
Oh yes you can!
Come on in, the water's fine
Paralyzed by perfection
This is not my beautiful house
Glenn Greenwald
War Room
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