Mi Casa Es Tu Casa — 10 Essential Rules for Living with Family, Friends, or Absolute Strangers

Barbara Castleton, M.A.
5 min readMar 24, 2021
A new kind of family under the same roof

When my daughter told me she was finally making the move from the east coast to the west and would be living with me in my 3 bedroom condo, I was ecstatic. Immediately, I started bustling around, shifting furniture, purging from overloaded closets and drawers and prepping for the new arrivals. Yes, plural, because along with my…

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Barbara Castleton, M.A.

Writer, teacher, seasonal ex-pat— my life is both an intentional and serendipitous circumstance. Mottos — “Buy the ticket, and go!” “Offer help where you can.”