Shakespeare’s Globe

Sep 19, 2024 | reactormag.com | M.L. Rio |Shakespeare’s Globe

I let my boomer parents talk me into buying a condo. A mortgage cost less than rent where I’d gone to get my PhD, and living without the intrusion of roommates or landlords seemed too good to be true after too many years of living with too many people in too small apartments. So went the reasoning. The first week I lived there, a tree root crushed a pipe in the crawlspace and filthy brown water started spewing from the drain in the kitchen sink.