I Moved Back to My Childhood Home

and hated every second of it

Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses, Paul Cézanne French, ca. 1890

Ali Hall recently published a wonderful article on romanticizing our childhood home.

My parents come from a sea-town named Trieste, right on the border between Italy and Slovenia. They were, and still are, spontaneous, kind-hearted romantics. They met on Saint Patrick's Day and decided to have me about one week after that. Eight…