An Ode to My Front Porch

How I reclaimed the lost art of porch-sitting

Kerala Taylor
Human Parts
Published in
8 min readJan 30, 2023

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It was love at first sight.

I’d seen other porches during our whirlwind tour of prospective houses, but this was by far the best front porch. This porch was no hasty afterthought. It was the central defining feature of this small, old home, tucked behind a tangle of wisteria.

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Kerala Taylor
Human Parts

Award-winning writer. Interrupting notions of what it means to be a mother, woman, worker, and wife. Subscribe: https://keralataylor.substack.com