Tag - going home

Who says you can’t go home? harmonize Jon Bon Jovi and Jennifer Nettles in their duet of the same name.  They croon about the heady experience of goin’ back to the place where one comes of age.  But Kent Haruf writes darkly in Where You Once Belonged about a hometown hero who returns to his stomping grounds to wreak havoc.  Homecomings.  Nostalgic?  Strange?  Or turbulent? I am on vacation this week in Iowa.  While short on major attractions (which is fine) and long on corn bursting from fertile ground, we come because our families live here.  Central Iowa is home.  But it…