"Home" in a writters life

Within texts, a single word can often send the reader's mind wandering in several direction. Thus, changing the reader's interpretation of the text. Within Annie Dillard's "The Writing Life", the word "home" may send a different meaning to the reader. Early in the text Dillard often describes her cabin as a dull, lifeless place of solitude. Her early portrayals of her cabin were sober and had no resemblance to a place she would enjoy living in. The cabin appears as merely a cabin with no personal value. It certainly does not appear to be a home.
Oddly enough, she choices to call the log cabin on the empty beach, a home. She says "One rainy day, this member of the real world gave me a ride home (pg 13)." Home is often seen as a place you feel welcome and at ease. The home contains personal items that can become a gateway into someone's personality. One can relax and unwind from the stress of the outside world and be at ease. A home also provides security and comfort. Most importantly the home is where the heart is. So why does Dillard choose to call her lonely, dull, cabin a home?
It is possible she was comfortable in the cabin and had gotten used to the idea of it being her home. On the other hand, perhaps she was inspired by the cabin. Maybe her long days alone in the cabin with her writing, gave her more passion for her work. She is free form "real world" problems and left alone in her cabin, to let her imagination run free. Dillard could easily say "a ride back to her cabin. She instead calls it a home and shows her love of the dull, lifeless, cabin in isolation.