i’ve started a substack newsletter. it’s a space to inventory the things we acquire to domesticate the spaces where we live. the things, both tangible and intangible, that make a place home.

this is the first entry.

i’ve been thinking about the act and art of home-making ever since my daughter and i left baltimore for durham back in march of 2020, just as the world locked down. it was the first time we’d ever lived alone, just she and i, and figuring out what kind of household i want to run is something i still work to reconcile, nearly 3.5 years later.

as glinda the good witch intones near the end of the the wiz, “home is knowing. knowing your mind, knowing your heart, knowing your courage.” the boundaries of each are tested when you set up house for the first time, when you’re the first and last line of defense, when every decision, colossal and inconsequential, is yours to make alone. what you know about yourself evolves and so, by necessity, does your sense of what it takes to make a home.

anyway.

it’s enough of a preoccupation that i decided it needed its own, separate platform for adequate exploration.

you can subscribe here.