Is home a place or a feeling?

How to find home wherever you are. The real reason we keep trinkets. Plus, a few favorite things that make a home a "home" to you and me.

“Some people spend their whole lives looking for home and never find it,” my writing teacher says one day in class. “They never let themselves be held.”

I think about this a lot. Especially as I bounce from LA and New York, splitting time between two coasts. 

“What makes a home a home?” I ask a friend over the phone. Like me, she’s been going back and for…