What Is "Home"?

As Morrissey once sang, "It's not my home it's their home and I'm wanted no more." And now it's happening to me...

"If our homes should provide anything, they should provide a sense of who we are and how we got here, a sense of connection balanced by a sense of direction and progress."

— Terence Conran

In a matter of days after I returned recently from Portland, I got a letter informing me that my apartment building in Oakland where I’d lived for the last decade had …