Christiana Aretta writes a journal about food, photography, & toys.

Posts Tagged ‘family’

Merriam-Webster has several definitions for home, including:

1. one’s place of residence,
2. the social unit formed by a family living together,
3. a familiar or usual setting : congenial environment ; also : the focus of one’s domestic attention
4. a place of origin

As a kid, I used to spend summer vacation at my grandmother’s house. She lived alone in a narrow rowhouse filled with old furniture, Marlboro cigarette smoke and frogs. She adored frogs – she had a brass frog-shaped plate around her doorbell, a concrete frog fountain in her backyard, and a shiny chrome diving frog hood ornament on her 1985 Volkswagen Quantum.