Rooms · Where life happens
The houses, communities, temporary bases, and familiar corners of the country that have made home a broader idea than one address.
Home is your place to live—to feel safe and good, to raise your family, and to be with your friends. For me, though, home has been a little broader than it is for most people.
My home base for the past 25 years has been this place at Geist Lake in Indianapolis. However, I have traveled for work so much that almost the entire United States has felt like home to me.
On this page we will explore those ideas about what makes a home a home, and I will share my experiences with you.
Featured story · Lake Monroe
Our vacation paradise, twice—from fifteen years of family summers in Harbour Pointe #7 to returning in retirement with Harbour Pointe #53.
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After reaching my fiftieth state, I looked back at the places that felt most like home and the American destinations everyone should see.
A drinking-water reservoir on the northeast edge of Indianapolis, and the lake I get to look out on every day.
Two chapters at Harbour Pointe on Lake Monroe—from fifteen years of family summers in Harbour Pointe
The hotels, apartments, cities, and repeated destinations that began to feel like home during decades of work travel.
The Florida side of retirement and the process of creating a new home beside the Atlantic.
The succession of houses and communities that shaped my understanding of home.
Brown County, Nashville, and the old family places that connect home to a longer history.