http://dir.salon.com/topics/home/?source=rss&aim=home en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST By Mary Elizabeth Williams Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/02/28/gimme_shelter/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/02/28/gimme_shelter/index.html?source=rss 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 Cary Tennis Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/07/11/dont_move_to_california/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/07/11/dont_move_to_california/index.html?source=rss I don't like California; I like it where I am! By Steve Almond Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/05/23/home_improvement/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/05/23/home_improvement/index.html?source=rss After two decades of renting, I finally bought my own home. What the hell was I thinking? By Garrison Keillor Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2007/10/03/home/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2007/10/03/home/index.html?source=rss 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 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/06/21/keillor/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/06/21/keillor/index.html?source=rss 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 Cary Tennis Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/01/17/housecleaning/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/01/17/housecleaning/index.html?source=rss I hate to clean and so does he. Are we crazy? By Cary Tennis Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/10/24/cant_say_no/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/10/24/cant_say_no/index.html?source=rss He propositioned me and threatened me and wouldn't leave until I signed the contract! By Cary Tennis Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/10/16/doctors/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/10/16/doctors/index.html?source=rss 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 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/06/05/troubled_father/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/06/05/troubled_father/index.html?source=rss He's a Vietnam vet and a troubled man whose house is falling down around him. By Cary Tennis Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/04/06/small_town_girl/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/04/06/small_town_girl/index.html?source=rss 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 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/04/05/mothers_paintings/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/04/05/mothers_paintings/index.html?source=rss 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 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/02/22/poop_on_the_hood/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/02/22/poop_on_the_hood/index.html?source=rss 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 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/02/12/key_to_apartment/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/02/12/key_to_apartment/index.html?source=rss I know it would be convenient, and we've been together seven years, but I just don't want to. By Cary Tennis Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/01/26/house/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/01/26/house/index.html?source=rss I think I made a big mistake. Home ownership isn't what I thought it would be. By Cary Tennis Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/01/22/secret_house/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/01/22/secret_house/index.html?source=rss Neither our kids nor my husband knows of our bungalow -- and I'd like to keep it that way. By Cary Tennis Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2006/12/06/father_in_law/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2006/12/06/father_in_law/index.html?source=rss 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 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2006/04/19/where_is_home/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2006/04/19/where_is_home/index.html?source=rss I've uprooted myself over and over again in a short time. Now I don't know where I belong. By Garrison Keillor Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/03/08/keillor/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/03/08/keillor/index.html?source=rss Distant cities may beckon, but nothing beats the soothing routine of domestic life. By Sarah Goldstein Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2006/02/24/house_thinking/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2006/02/24/house_thinking/index.html?source=rss Journalist Winifred Gallagher talks about the urge to nest, suburban sprawl, and whether George Washington owned the first McMansion. By Billy Sothern Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/09/19/homeagain/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/09/19/homeagain/index.html?source=rss 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. Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/letters/2002/11/08/homing3_thugs/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/letters/2002/11/08/homing3_thugs/index.html?source=rss Readers respond to "Homing Instinct: Oh Yes You Can!" by Cary Tennis, and "The Unexamined Thug Life," by Janelle Brown By Cary Tennis Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2002/11/07/home_buy2/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2002/11/07/home_buy2/index.html?source=rss We had no savings, hefty credit-card debt, and middling self-esteem. Still, we got the house. By Cary Tennis Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2002/09/19/home_buy/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2002/09/19/home_buy/index.html?source=rss You really should buy a house. I mean it. Part 1. By Cary Tennis Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/09/05/homing2/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/09/05/homing2/index.html?source=rss I hone my own nutty ideas for a remodeling cure. By Carol Lynn Mithers Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/05/14/going_home/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/05/14/going_home/index.html?source=rss We go back to old homes to reinhabit past selves. We don't own them anymore, but they belong to us nonetheless.