Tag: home
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Carolina Beach
The Carolinas have always been home. But home means different things to different people. Is home a place? The family you surround yourself with? Is it more of a feeling than a physical structure? For me, home wasn’t just the house I grew up in. It was one- or two-week vacations at Sunset Beach. It…
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Housewarming
I love having visitors in my home. It truly does make the house feel more warm, doesn’t it? Last weekend, it was my boyfriend’s dad, who I hope will, one day, be my father-in-law. (Shh.) Mr. Smith brought with him a car full of goodies and a heart full of joy to see his son.…
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Home
by Brian Smith Is home the town I grew up in, or the physical house within that town? If my dad sells said house, am I suddenly homeless? Or is home just the space you come back to at the end of a long work day? I lived in the same house for 18 years…
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On Leaving New York
Three and a half years. That’s how much I gave to this place, to the city of dreams and, as some say, the greatest city in the world. There’s no doubt it’s great—just look at it. The people it attracts. The work it churns out. The constant buzz of subway performers, Wall Street cronies, and…
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Sunset Beach
North Carolina is my home. It always has been and it always will be. There’s something here that I can’t explain that just runs through my veins. It must be love. This place offers me more love than I think I deserve, but it does so unconditionally and without hesitation. If I could write a…
Leah McCann Smith | Writer & Editor 