What does "home" mean to you?

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by Toni Thompson

Two year old Alex tore into the house on Oak Vine Drive past the rough stucco wall in the family room, dragging me by the hand. "Mommy, this is MY room!" Ah! The modest mass of wood and block on Oak Vine Drive found us. We...read more

by Stephen Bate

"Home is where the heart is". For those of us fortunate enough to be on the property ladder we have managed to invest ourselves in the bricks and mortar that is a "house". In many cases this house becomes an object, it ...read more

by Susan Kliebenstein

Can a house be a home? Or is it the people who are our home? Perhaps it is the climate and the culture that are home to some people. There are memories: sites and sounds and smells that make us feel at home. And there ar...read more

by MrsMac1970

It is 3:45 on a weekday. Instead of hanging out a restaurant or shopping for shoes (and I LOVE shoes), I head home. It's been 8 hours and I've missed it terribly-the structure itself, the outdoor sanctuary, and my two un...read more

by Kristi Moore

For me, home is a place to call my very own, where I feel safe and sheltered at the end of a very long day. It's the place I run to when everything around me seems to be falling apart. Home is a place where I can invit...read more

by Jenna Tresance

Home is where things feel so familiar they are almost a part of me. Home is where memories are made, cherished and recalled. To me it means warmth and comfort, familiarity and companionship, laughter and tears. Home is a s...read more

by Lynette Ayre

Home is where the heart is. Sometimes it is a place and sometimes it is people. It is what it was to you as a child and what you make it later in life for yourself and your family. Home is a place. It is where you go b...read more

by Shirley Norling

"Home" to me means my present living situation. It's where I come after I've worked all day. It's where I come after I've been on a fabulous vacation. "Home" is where we spend the holidays with family and friends, or m...read more

by Ruth Woodhouse

To me home is the place where I am most free to be myself. It is the place where I have the greatest sense of belonging and where I can relate most intimately to the people who mean the most to me. It's also the place wh...read more

by Leastone

My home is in Africa, and, Africa is in my heart. My home is as open as the African sky, as wide as the deserts, as warm as the southern sun; it is as deep as the blue mystery and majesty of the mountains. My environme...read more

by Barbara A. Black

Home. What do we mean when we say that word? Is it a place, a certain feeling, or just an idea? Or can it be all these, and even more? I've never tried to define what "home" means to me, but it is definitely an intrigu...read more

by Laura Leigh Fields

I have lived in many places over the years but very few of them linked to my heart. It seemed as though something just wasn't right. My stuff was there. It was my place, but when it came down to it, it really wasn't. I pai...read more

by Danny Master Skipper

Home is a place where we meet warm sometimes challenging faces that come and visit and stay, where people love to cook, sit and talk where all is welcome and it is o.k. a place to rest and reflect life to ask someone if it...read more

by Cynthia Sherman

Home, home sweet home. Doesn't that have a magical sound? I have lived in so many houses throughout my life and I have never felt that any of these houses were my home. Many houses were lost to me growing up, I never felt ...read more

by James Mockridge

A home is more than just plain bricks and mortar. You can find a house anywhere, but to find somewhere that you can call your 'home' is to find a place that becomes a representation of yourself. A place that as soon as you...read more

by Kim Sharpe

Home is my refuge. My world away from the world. A warm safe place that I can call my own. A place of familiarity. I like the feeling when I get up in the middle of the night and its all dark and I cannot see anything...read more

by Brenda Halverson

Home is where I know I belong. Once it was my parents' farm, where the dogs and cats and horses welcomed me and I felt safe from childhood stress. Upstairs in the barn, looking over the pasture where ponies grazed, it ...read more

by Theo Chester

New memories are what makes this my home. I lost memories in a fire that destroyed our home, wiping out our possessions, exactly 4 years ago this month. The day of the fire was the 29th of February. As this is a leap year,...read more

by Candace Williams

An oasis in the midst of a desert.Home is where I regroup,recover and rejuvenate and so do those I love. It is a place to retreat from the pressures of 'out there' and get ready to go back out. It is a place to invite them...read more

by Lily Chen

Theres no place like home, and the moon of hometown is brighter, right? We often express our homesickness with this saying when far from our hometown, although the moon remains same everywhere. Who doesnt love his hometown...read more