On this page you'll find articles related to our homes. These articles are inspired by interviews on The Art of Imperfect Adulting show.
There is a particular kind of courage that doesn’t feel like courage in the moment. It feels more like necessity, like standing in a room after everything has been cleared out and realizing the only thing left to do is walk through a door you never thought to open. For ...
A common story about how people end up somewhere new will tell you they followed a job, a family member, or a plan. Stephanie Benedetto followed something harder to name. In 2022, she was living comfortably in Tampa Bay, Florida, renting a house with her partner of two years and ...
Lindsey Tague was sitting in her Florida apartment during the summer of 2020, watching the world slow to a standstill during the pandemic. Like many of us during that surreal time, she was forced to reckon with a simple truth: time stops for no one. She had spent two years ...
The line between dreaming and doing often gets blurred by the weight of our possessions. For Penny Rose and her husband, that weight was measured in square footage: 1,640 square feet of their home plus another 1,400 square feet from his house, both packed with belongings they couldn’t even reach. ...
In 1978, a Nebraska farm girl sat on a New York City playground while her three adopted children played nearby. She had $7 in grocery money and a pressing need to supplement her husband’s nonprofit salary. Instead of panicking, Barbara Hemphill did something unexpected: she listened. Around her, parents complained ...
With a single decisive click Julia Chien chose the unknown. Chien found herself staring at a computer screen, hesitating between a round-trip ticket and a one-way flight to Costa Rica. That moment of uncertainty—”Should I change this ticket to roundtrip? Is this stupid of me to book a one way ...
The moment four-year-old London tried barbecue for the first time in a family-owned North Carolina restaurant, his willingness to embrace new experiences revealed something profound about how children learn when given the freedom to choose. The restaurant owners, charmed by this young traveler from New York, brought him dish after ...
It could be the plot of a tv miniseries: man with a great life gets surprise terminal health diagnosis. It was 2012 when doctors diagnosed Terry Tucker with a rare form of melanoma and told him he had two years to live. His response captures something profound about human nature ...
Stop me if this sounds familiar, because it’s not an uncommon story. You’re living in a beautiful house with your spouse, excelling in a meaningful career, checking all the boxes that society says equal success. Yet something feels off. You’re going through the motions of a life that looks perfect ...
When you think about books that you might consider life-changing, what comes to mind. Perhaps a textbook or a history book. Even a philosophy book or a memoire. But piicture this: a 30-year-old woman goes browsing a secondhand bookstore during Christmas holidays, looking for simple entertainment to pass the time. ...