The Perfect Easter

On Easter evening my wife came to me crying. “This has been the perfect Easter! Thank you for providing this home … in this neighborhood … for me and the boys.” At that moment, I truly understood the meaning of home and community. For the previous 7 years, our family had been living in a tiny house… Read More The Perfect Easter

April 28, 2014June 17, 2015 tapirkingLeave a comment

Her Parents’ gift

In 1971, my parents bought a tiny one bedroom home in the Bryant neighborhood in Seattle. Rumor has it the area was once a fruit orchard, and this house was formerly one of the pickers’ shacks. Two of my brothers moved in and set about remodeling the house in the style of the day (fake… Read More Her Parents’ gift

March 21, 2014June 17, 2015 tapirkingLeave a comment

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Stories of Home

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” Robert Frost

Category: Seattle homes

The Perfect Easter

Her Parents’ gift