My Neighbors Treated My Fence Like It Was Theirs Until I Finally Put a Stop to It

and both adults had adopted a policy of conspicuous avoidance that everyone on the street could feel. The original problem had been solved. The residue of how it was solved had been sitting there ever since.

I didn’t want that. I wanted to be able to walk into my backyard on a Saturday morning without it feeling like a contested territory. I wanted continue reading …