
In an essay, Maggie Smith writes about her house that will turn 100 next year and the privilege of choosing to stay in it.

In an essay, Maggie Smith writes about her house that will turn 100 next year and the privilege of choosing to stay in it.

Maggie Smith, author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful, learned to stop thinking only of loss after divorce and see herself and her family as whole.

Maggie Smith, author of the memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, writes of giving herself a room of her own after her divorce.
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