Creating Your Own Happy Place

Alecia Kennedy
4 min readMay 29, 2022

No one else is going to do it

Author’s front porch — one of her many happy places

When I was a child, I spent much of my time at my grandmother’s house. Her house was everything that my parents’ ranch style house was not. Her house had not one, but two fireplaces, while my house had none. She had an upstairs where my sister and I could play undisturbed and she had a big front porch with two porch swings!

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