I am so pleased to introduce today's guest-poster, friend and novelist Sonya Terjanian, author of, most recently, The Runaways. Her book follows the dovetailing stories of a teenage girl and a middle-age mother of two, both of whom find themselves at crossroads and decide to indulge their instincts to escape unfulfilled everyday lives. Most of the action (often harrowing, page-turning action) takes place in a vacation house that belongs to someone else -- fitting given that this is Sonya's preferred strategy for exploring the world with her own family of four. Here she is talking about house swapping...take it away, Sonya!