Are you someone who finds solace and strength in your connections with others?

A Lot of People Live in This House is celebrating its first birthday! Now that I’m an expert (ha), here are 5 things I’d do differently.

These 5 misconceptions will change your mind about communal living.

It’s wild to me that my novel, A Lot of People Live in This House, will be in the world soon and that people will read it. A scarier part...

Fish cakes, I think. I don’t write much about my home situation anymore, but it’s not because I’m not happy. Quite the opposite. It just...

Something awful happened in March. Brennan and Lark—longtime housemates and very good friends—moved out of the House. This is awful for...

The Bond House had a baby. Well, Michael and Claudia had a baby, and the rest of us are proud aunts and uncles. Mara was born into a...

The dinner table awaits. Despite having had the benefit of human history to develop language, we are shockingly bad at descriptions. As...

Mucha will remain vigilant, waiting for his lady love. It’s funny how quickly we bond, to the point that we get so used to life together...

Stuck inside. All I can do is read shitty romance novels. Why does this feel like a hostage situation? Since the rousing success of...

Claudia, Josefina & Sweet Baby Pineapple It is a well-established fact that the House is unusual. Let’s not talk about the revolving door...

I’m really growing into this host position. Please, come to our house so I can feed you. After ten minutes out in the fresh air this...

It’s only an adventure if I have to get on a bus. It’s been a while. Life has this strange habit of going fast and slow all at once, a...

When I was growing up, I had no idea that people traveled in August. Where I’m from, vacations happen in June and people spend their time...

Preview: Our Chaos With summer winding down to a close, it’s easy to get behind on important things: chores, paperwork, meeting up with...

Summer hitting us hard, at last January lingered on for about six months. Now, all of a sudden, we’re over halfway through the year. The...

Precious. In the bleak midwinter, we sat around the kitchen table and talked about Claudia’s upcoming birthday. Michael and I strove to...

Blurry and, yet, we look great Sometimes it’s hard to believe that it was only four months ago that I moved into a house with Craigslist...

Gideon, lost in snow As a poor, naive Southerner, I thought that we might see spring and put away our snow boots by the end of February....

Celebrating “New Bonds” One of life’s great pleasures is sharing a meal with friends. There’s something to be said about a bowl of salad...