http://dir.salon.com/topics/homing_instinct/?source=rss&aim=homing_instinct en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:01:00 PST By Cary Tennis Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:01:00 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. Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:01:00 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 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:01:00 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 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:01:00 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 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:01:00 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 Cary Tennis Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:01:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/08/07/homing_instinct1/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/08/07/homing_instinct1/index.html?source=rss Our house has become an unexpected obsession, a strange gift, an object of passion and frustration, and a wall to slump against in exhaustion.