The Best Story

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What started as a chill-and-grill birthday pool party at someone else’s house, ended as an impromptu girls’ wine night at mine.

This isn’t unusual. I try to always keep wine and coffee stocked in the kitchen, pillows, and candles ready for comfort and ambiance, fairy lights twinkling and strung out the back, with my furry, entertaining pets greeting each unplanned guest at the front.

My friends are always welcome. So when the party dwindled at my neighbor’s, the after-party sparked up at mine.

Rather than claiming a cushioned chair on my jungle-planted porch, the girls got cozy on the couch, so I lit the candles and popped open a bottle of red.

The language flitted between Spanish and English, while the topics peppered parenthood and relationships. More wine was poured, our chatter never quietening as our laughter lit up the room.

My home blooms with memories made from such spontaneous moments.

Every single item in my house, down from the small blue twin candle holders procured from my adventures in Bulgaria, to the dusty, time-tattered books bought in the Lanes in England, and the elephant art curated from a remote village in…