Jaqueline McLeod Rogers is a mother of two adult daughters and Professor and Chair (Department of Rhetoric) at University of Winnipeg. Her doctoral thesis studied fiction by women (published as Aspects of the Female Novel) and she has continued exploring women’s experiences and writing. The blog (https://familybloglines.com/ ) eventuated in this co-edited collection. Recently, she’s explored urban space and local place and published McLuhan’s Techno-Sensorium City: Coming to our Senses in a Programmed Environment (Lexington). Marshall McLuhan used to predict we’d live in houses without walls: Are we there yet?