“Whatever it was the God of War wanted of our fire that night we weren’t sure we wanted to know.”

"I reflected that I was a product of accident and dedication, a strange potion of unplanned and to-die-for."

"It was the place where I started figuring out that home doesn’t have to be permanent."

"Offshore of the town where we vacation on a barrier island in North Carolina, climate change piles five new inches of water onto the sea every ten years..."

"We teach the kids to edge around imagined rectangles, tell them: we don’t walk across graves."

"I awoke alone in the tiny house, our solar-powered houseboat at the Burlington Marina. You had slept in the hotel room we’d taken the night before to escape from our adventure on the water—the noise of the marina, the crowds on the docks, the general party atmosphere at Waterfront Park..."