I am an Old House

J Dawson
8 min readFeb 23, 2022

I’m inadvertently acting out a metaphor and it’s comforting.

A partial updated upstairs hallway.

February 18th marks three months since I packed my family of four and six pets into my Rav 4 Hybrid and left my desert McMansion in Arizona for a hundred-year-old fixer-upper walking distance to an adorable small town in Connecticut. I did this like my hair was on fire. Like my life depended on it. I’m certain my soul did.

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J Dawson

Writes literary fiction with a speculative bent. A parent of teens. Accidental house flipper. Friend of cats and dogs. Kindness matters. ND Bi (she/they)