What am I Supposed to Do With My Childhood Home?

I don’t think I can sell a member of my dysfunctional family.

Photo by Birgit Loit on Unsplash

This is a story about a dead house that I suspect wants to live again. This is a story about a house with peeling stucco, overgrown jasmine with no flowers, roof tiles in the line of fire of falling palm fronds. This is a story about a house that once had a beautiful, original…