Reflections: Going back home 19 Articles

by Barbara Kasey Smith

I guess I was in my fifties when I got a hunger to go back to my old home place and walk through the house one more time. It was like something was drawing me to the house. I was restless and couldn't think of a thing but ...read more

by Hollie Cummings

I've never been the type of person that wanted to grow up and stay in my town. I grew up there, spent every year of my life there, I know every road and can recognize every house. I always just imagined it was a holding ar...read more

by Vicki Phipps

Sometimes I wondered if peace would ever be found for me. It seems that I'd looked for it everywhere, but who'd have thought that I'd find it in Wichita Falls? Going home again after years of distance can be a good place...read more

by Colleen C Smith

The home where I grew up as a child sold and someone new lives there now. My grandparents raised me. Sadly, the both passed away within a year of each other. The contents of their home sold at an auction. The day of the au...read more

by Alissa King

Always odd going home again, to the first place. Home stands sentry, old strength and old remission. Once I began to recognize the elegance of the architecture, I put on airs for the neighbor kids, and flaunted our portico...read more

by I-Walsh

Going home, A difficult time for every mid twenties man. As a Soldier for the past 3 years of my life I left my home town of white suburban America the same way so many before me left it. Clueless to what the world had to...read more

by W.M. Scooter

I was an impatient teenager by the time I reached my junior year in high school. I looked ahead to getting out of school, leaving home and starting my own life in my own way. I joined every sport I could, stayed out late...read more

by Henry Hall

Going back home was something I had experience too. I was 10 when I moved to the South of France with my family. We wanted a nice fresh start, something that was a bit different that living in England, where it rained al...read more

by Kirsty O'Lone

Going back home was really difficult for me, but it was something I had to do and in the end I am glad I made that decision. I had left home for the city about a year before to start a great job that was really going to ta...read more

by Marilyn Y Meyer

I grew up in a house that my parents rented. It was actually small considering that there was my parents and six kids. The house had a kitchen, a living room a bedroom upstairs which was also where the bathroom was,a small...read more

by Julie Sewell-Schmidt

I've lived in the Rocky Mountains for 27 of my 37 years. My house is here, my career is here, and my family is here. When I think about going back home, though, my thoughts turn to the mid-west. Illinois winters are as...read more

by Lyndsey B

Last year I started my first year at university in Glasgow , hundreds of miles away from my home town of Belfast. I'd always planned to go away for university and rather than me scared of leaving home I was excited, I coul...read more

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by Marina Amici

In Spanish and Italian, there is one word, "casa" (with a slight difference in pronunciation), that means both "house" and "home." There is no distinction between where one lives and where one's place is, where one belong...read more

by Tana Maria Toth (TMT)

When I planned to live my country,never imagined ,that soon I will miss it a lot.I was young,and looked for adventures,and a plus I had my personal life roller coaster. Those time my best song was "if I will be rich I w...read more

by ramleela

Going back home First we need to focus on what is home. It is a trite saying but need to b e recorded. A house is not a home. So what makes for a home, that a human being yearns for such homecoming? This desire is unive...read more

by Myrna Writewood

Going back home,is always a pleasure, always good to see the people you haven't seen awhile. Always good to see the places you used to go, the memories that linger in your mind. It's good to go back home to your roots, ...read more

by TMMONROE

My fondest thoughts are of going back to my childhood home. Those were the best times I have ever had. Yes, I lived in a small little town. We had relatives everywhere in our home town in the next town over etc.,etc.. Ev...read more

by Maria Andrews

There's not a day of the week that I enjoy and appreciate more than Sundays. There are many reasons why Sunday brings contentment for me. It's a day that is completely free of "have to" or "must do". It's a day in which...read more

by Michelle Jose

I had nothing to say to this place as I stood inside of Hollywood & Highland Mall, where you overlook to the exaggerated Hollywood sign on that hill I called home for all this while. I took a deep breath and got off the st...read more