This Land

Christmas 1987 was our first Christmas in the new house. The new house is still the new house, even though my parents have lived in it now for 24 years, and we only lived in the old house for five. It is right around the corner from our old elementary…

I’ve always been very susceptible to other people’s slang. If I make a new friend, a month later, I’ll have picked up at least one of their turns of phrase. This is more about my sponge-like love for language than any sort of Single White Female behavior, but I still…