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House Guests
By: Michelle Teo
On New Years Eve, a friend arrived to spend New Year’s with my husband and me. He had travelled a long way and we were... Read more >>
By: Judith Baland
When my son was four, we were eating dinner at an aunt’s house with the whole family. She had plates with writing on them. During... Read more >>
My Houseguest Survival Guide
I always think that houseguests are a mixed blessing. On the one hand, I love to see my out of town friends; on the other... Read more >>
Mind If I Stay with You?
When I was in my twenties, if I heard a friend had a houseguest staying with her, I was jealous. It sounded like an intimate... Read more >>
No More Houseguests
When my husband and I moved into our current apartment, it felt like a graduation of sorts. Not because we’d never lived together (we had... Read more >>
The Welcome to My House Kit
We arrived at our friends’ doorstep tired, reeking of airplane, and in need of a shower. They welcomed us in and immediately helped us relax... Read more >>
Pat and Norma
My parents are homeless. On January 31st, they sold their home of twenty-nine years, a two-family semi-attached brick house in the Bay Ridge section of... Read more >>
Do you have party planning down to a science? Can you coordinate guests, appetizers, and drinks without even breaking a sweat? We want to hear all about it! Tell us how you do it. >>
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