Add to ORKGGraduation date: 2016Access permanently restricted to the OSU Community at author's request.This collection of linked personal essays explores my relationship to place as I leave my first home in Tennessee in search of what I would choose for myself. These meditations on people and places focus on the dilemma of potential. Each essay conveys a need to move forward, toward or just past a number of futures that could make me happy. Each essay leads individual explorations of home via southern accents, local wildlife, family, romantic relationships, experiences housesitting, and a variety of apartments and houses in Tennessee and Oregon. The core question of this collection is, "If a person can try to go anywhere and do anything, how do you ch...