Late last year, my husband and I joined the ranks of the mortgage-bound. With our purchase of a house, we traded our status as lackadaisical renters for that of homeowners, regarding the invasive shoots of bamboo at the back fence with a gimlet eye, believing each one an existential threat. For decades a committed tree-hugger, I'm now forced to admit that Cersei Lannister greets her royal children's fiancees with more warmth than I greet these [...]
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