I CHALLENGE YOU TO WRITE ABOUT…

Home

I have lived more places than I care to count. Houses, apartments, hotel rooms, dorm rooms, rooms in other people’s houses. I’ve lived in nine states here in the US, six of them before I graduated college. I lived in two other countries when I was in middle school.

I can’t truly say many of the places I lived before college were home. Sure, they were where I lived — where my family lived — but they weren’t home. I didn’t feel I fit in most of the time. College — that was the first place my heart felt was home.

In college, my definition of home changed. Home became home because there were people there who loved me. Who supported about me. Who wanted me to succeed. Who loved me for myself, not for what I could be for them.

Once B and I met, home became where he was. Adopting our son, added another layer to “home is where the people who love me are”. It is still that way today. I live in our apartment, but home is wherever B and I are together. That, I hope will always be the case.

Where is home? Is it a place, a feeling, a person? Tell us what or where home is for you. Show us with your words or with your images. Send us your essays, your poems, your images. Share home with us.

The prompt for Thursday, February 27th, 2020 is “Home”.

Please be sure to give your piece the tag “Home”. The other four tags can be anything you wish. If you are looking for our submission guidelines, you can find them here: