These are all love stories. But, as one of my oldest and dearest friends pointed, out, all of my stories are love stories, mostly gay love stories. Then, she thoughtfully remarked that all the stories in this collection are about home: leaving and returning home, losing it, finding it, home as an idea, home Here and There, home as a place of the heart. Mostly, she said, these stories are about starting a new home in some way.
She was, of course, right. That I didn’t see this immediately suggests that I am in the midst of recreating my home. My husband and I were married in November 2018, when he was living in one place, and I was living in another. For job reasons, we didn’t move in together until March 2020, in the midst of the pandemic (not recommended). And here we are, learning how to
