OUR CHILDHOOD HOMES

During the early fifties my dad, having decided not to transfer with the United Carbon Company to the Gulf Coast, bought and moved one of...

I grew up in a fairly large suburban neighborhood outside of Syracuse, New York, which in itself is a fairly small city. My house was an...

“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.” ― William Butler Yeats I grew up...

Do our lives end as they began? Is our existence one great big circle? No beginning...... No end. As I sit on Jil's front porch I'm...

I was born in Canton, China. Guangzhou is the real name, the Chinese name for Canton. Actually, I wasn’t born in Canton, I was born in a...

I grew up in Alma, Wisconsin, about an hour and a half south of Minneapolis/St Paul via Highway 35, (The Great River Road), at Lock and...

My childhood home didn’t really come into being until I was nine. Before then my family scurried through more residences than I can...

My first 12 years were lived in a magically warm home at 145 Columbia Ave. in the Mayberry-like town of Elyria, Ohio, just west of...

In 1956 my parents bought their first home at 691 Jefferson Street in Galesburg, Illinois. Previously they lived in a cramped apartment...

The home I lived in from age 10 through high school was in Buffalo, New York. Once I left for college, I didn’t return to live there for...

When I was a very young child, I lived in an old brick, Chicago six-flat apartment building overflowing with my father’s Polish Catholic...

I’m 67 years old and have lived in the same house for a total of 48 years. My parents divorced when I was 5 so my mother, brother and I...

I think the house that I’m most interested in talking about is my aunt and uncle’s house. My mother died, and I got moved over to an aunt...

My father was a WW II veteran who attended college on the GI Bill and was able to buy our family’s first house using Veterans Benefits in...

Back in the boom times of the early 1950s, middle-class Texans sometimes designed and built their homes in collaboration with an...