Lived Through This

What I Learned From Living a Year in Airbnbs

First lesson: A house is not a home

Photos courtesy of the author.

When I was a senior in college, we went to Mexico. I remember the flight being turbulent, and that was the start of my lifelong fear of planes. I wondered if we’d plunge into the ocean and what that would feel like — metal breaking the surface, a body tearing its way down…