The Jesuit Relations (1671) contains a long description of Mackinac Island, "its fisheries, its phenomena of wind and tide, and the tribes who, now and in the past, have made it their abode.
Exit from what is now the back (but was originally the main entrance with an impressive carved gate), past the royal baths to the small abode of the courtesan Rai Parveen, set in a garden designed in the classic Mughal style.
But as with any other real estate transaction, it's important to move past emotion when deciding what will happen to your abode in the future.
Walk we not, Sweet, by garden ways, Where the late rose hangs and the phlox delays, But forth of the gate and down the road, Past the church and the yews, to their dim abode.
"They are in effect time capsules that in the often stable underground environment preserve information about the past," says Simon Brooks, chief coordinator of the Caving in the Abode of Clouds Expedition, that explores caves in Meghalaya.
A rock that may or may not bear traces of microbial life and increasing evidence of an aqueous history has renewed interest in Mars as an abode of life in some simple forms, at least in the past if not now.
For most of the past seven years, it has actually been someone's home, occupied by a vagrant called Tachowa Covington, who turned the interior into a comfortably furnished abode, complete with carpets, a stove and a television.
It is about a 10-minute walk from his Capitol Hill office -- past the Library of Congress and around the corner from the Supreme Court, points of reference that, as he notes, make his abode sound undeservingly upscale.
The reason ants are coming into your humble abode is because it's a free-for-all (or at least it was at some point in the past, and they're hoping it might be again).
