Having a Home

I’m not saying Tarnowskie Góry, Poland is Heaven on Earth. That would be preposterous. I’m just saying that if I had to choose somewhere on Earth to approximate Heaven it might be Tarnowskie Góry, Poland.

I’m completely biased, of course. It’s my home, and it’s the first place I was really happy in my adult life. But it is also great. I wrote six years a…