Where were you a year ago today? Can you remember? Chances are if you weren’t searching for toilet paper or trying to navigate a job whose vitality …
The Year There Really Was No Place Like Home
After 12 months spent sheltering in place, what have we lost, and what have we learned? To commemorate the one-year mark of stay-at-home orders, we're highlighting the ways in which home has changed for people in the past 12 months, and how communities have risen to the challenge of supporting one another through it all. It’s a series we've called One Year In, to reflect both the time and space we’ve inhabited. Read the collection of stories at the link in bio.
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Lindsay Wallace has collected memories of temporary rooms, of an “ever-increasing number of places where I’ve just been like, this is where I’m going …
My life turned completely upside down on March 16, 2020. That was the day my university emailed our student body to get out of the dorms and go home. …
Throughout college, no matter where I lived, I had a “wall of stuff” that went up the day I moved in, and left with me at the end of each semester. …
When I first moved into my very small studio apartment in Manhattan’s Upper West Side two years ago, I knew it was small. No, think smaller than …
Last spring, I felt disconnected from family and friends. It was a common side-effect of the pandemic, and of shelter-in-place orders that suddenly …
There were times when I was a perfect pupil of the panna cotta: Deep-cleaning the house, preparing restaurant and bar faves at home, being a great …
“I never want to go back,” Miman*, a recruiter, told Apartment Therapy. “Remote life is the life for me.” According to Miman, his home office is …