Welcome to Home Again, a newsletter by Sarah Powers.

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A native and a newcomer.

At the age of 40, in the confusing early months of a global pandemic, I moved with my family back to the town I grew up in. I’d been living elsewhere (several elsewheres, actually) for exactly 22 years. Since that move, I’ve reflected on what it means to be ‘new in town’ in a place I once knew intimately.

The idea of writing about moving back to the old hometown arrived slowly over the last couple of years, alongside shifts in my other creative work and a desire to return to personal narrative and essay writing. So there’s a ‘home again’ happening in my writing life as well: it’s been years since I’ve written consistently anywhere, and this land of Substack feels both familiar (like the blogging days I cut my teeth in) and also uncomfortably new.

So what are we doing here, exactly?

Great question. Home Again is a free newsletter inspired by my experience returning to the town I grew up in after two decades away. I’m interested in what it means to be of a place, living in a place, and actively engaged in making that place home.

Home Again is also a space for me to return home to the practice of writing, which means that often I’ll have things to say here that have nothing to do with moving home.

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