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Home and Neighbors by Elicia Berger

Home and Neighbors by Elicia Berger

There’s home. Then there are the place and people around home. Ever wondered how important your neighbors are in making your home experience? Imagine growing up without your childhood buddies next door or the kind lady who always smelled of cookies or, well, anybody! Elicia Berger’s story today is about […]

And the Hoarder Culture by Steve Jacobs

And the Hoarder Culture by Steve Jacobs

Home is a storage place for superb memories.  Though that’s just another way of saying home is a dumping ground, this is one good dumping ground everyone should be thankful for! After all, where else would you put that first pair of shoes you bought from your own money but […]

Coming from New Jersey by John Minus

Coming from New Jersey by John Minus

This editor can unabashedly announce she lives in New Jersey. And we know what that means to New Yorkers! You know how people put up on Facebook that they live in New York when they are actually living on the other side of the river?  Today’s post is not about […]

Home and Food by Kayli Stollack

Home and Food by Kayli Stollack

Food can be your first love. Home food can be your ultimate love. Are you among the grateful majority that will heatedly claim that nothing beats mom’s cooking? Ever wonder where this appreciation for food can get you? Today’s speaker, Kayli, grew up in this wonderful culture of home food, […]

Pioneer Michele Carlo + the Sweet Revenge of the Puerto Ricans

Pioneer Michele Carlo + the Sweet Revenge of the Puerto Ricans

I remember a friend of mine from India who told me a funny story about how somebody at her U.S. university walked up to her and asked her, “Are you Victoria?” She was taken aback, to say the very least.  She now qualified for a Victoria?!  I bet it would […]

Eugene Ashton-Gonzalez sings “Hotel California” in Vietnam

Eugene Ashton-Gonzalez sings “Hotel California” in Vietnam

We’ve been busy! BBOX Radio and PenTales put together an event last month where New Yorkers came together to share tales inspired by the word “HOME.”  Keep listening to BBOX for all the HOME stories in the coming weeks! Gear up for a week of HOME stories right here on […]

“Casa Pupa” by Jeanny Gering, Lahore

“Casa Pupa” by Jeanny Gering, Lahore

topic: HOME medium: TEXT as submitted for the “Home Sweet Home” Event My family used to go on holiday to a farm house every year, for two weeks in the rural Portugal. The sea was not far away, you could smell it in the otherwise sun scorched air. My siblings […]

Allen Salkin and the Golden Shackle that is New York City

Another great performance from our storytelling event in partnership with the BMW Guggenheim Lab. This story will hit home for oh-so-many of you dear PenTales friends. Today, we invite you to watch writer Allen Salkin speak somberly about how Whole Foods is basically just an extension of Coyote Ugly and […]