Article May 6, 2013 Issue

'The dearest spot on earth'

Cate Vincent

Home is the consciousness of good.

—Rosemary Cobham, Christian Science Hymnal, No. 443 

A house on a quiet street in California, a teepee in a Missouri forest, a houseboat on the Rhein, a canoe and tent along the Mississippi River, a Russian communal apartment, an island in the middle of Lake Michigan, a Midwestern farm, an English cottage, the nurses’ quarters in a Christian Science nursing facility, a dacha in Siberia, all of these, and more, have been home to me. 