There's No Place Like Home

I'm back in Maryland! As I was putting away my suitcase I had a flashback to me frantically packing the same suitcase to go to China. (Aren't there those moments you experience over and over again? For me it is frantically packing my suitcase because I hate packing and I always leave it to the last moment, which might also help explain all those flights I've missed.) My mom says not much has changed around here, but I noticed there's a new deck. Still, it's reassuring to be here as I have no other place to call home at the moment.