The Bright Side of Being a Writer

when life makes us better at our jobs

Four years ago, I wanted to buy a house. I didn’t know the first thing about the home-buying process. But after years of floating from place to place, resisting the decision to make any one place my home, I suddenly yearned for something to make me feel grounded. And a house—even a really, really small one, which was all I could afford—seemed big and st…