Safe house

the backyard. On a whim before going out I decided to let all three of our cats outside. However, I kept one with me by putting a harness and leash on her. I decided so that she could keep my friend and I company while we figured out our tree house. When I finally got her situated I turned to my brother and tried to join me. I thought since it was just the two of us we could use all the help we could put the plywood into the tree. Nonetheless, he was immovable. I was at least able to…

back spread like wildfire and everyone including myself and Apolina came out of our houses to see it for ourselves. They came walking down the dirt road, their faces wrinkled with exhaustion. Kino carried a rifle and Juana held her shawl as a sack over her shoulder. Everyone looked away or whispered among themselves and I started to wave hello, but I didn’t know what to say. They walked passed the city and brush houses, not saying a word. The mood had suddenly turned from happy to doleful. It…

“The Do-Over” is a comedy only released on netflix about a year ago starring Adam Sandler as “Max Kessler” and David Spade playing “Charlie McMillan”. This movie is mainly about two high school friends reconnecting at a high school reunion and making their lives much more interesting than it is at that point in time. Max plans to fake both of their deaths and start from scratch. A new life… Literally! They go through many obstacles, kill some people, meet new colleagues that later on become…

Heroin in Toledo, Ohio. In Toledo Ohio, heroin has been on the rise in recent years. Unfortunately, being an addict can happen to anyone, no matter what age. A lot of people may think it will never happen to them, but most addicts say the same thing. Heroin is a huge problem. It can be so addictive, that even if you are clean for years, you may still come crawling back to it. Joe, who was severely addicted, relapsed multiple times and is now 8 years clean. But he does admit the temptation is…

The Big Move After what felt like a lifetime of planning, our family was finally making the big move from New York to Texas. The house we lived in was my childhood home and my husband and I shared it for fifteen years together. This was not going to be an easy task. Our first hurdle was preparing for this huge adventure. Secondly, we needed to drive both cars down. That meant that we would not have the other person to take over driving when our eyelids became as heavy as weights over our…

This selection was written to describe the conditions of tenement houses, overcrowded slums that filled New York City during the late 1900’s. The first sentence of this selection states, “The first tenement New York knew bore the mark of Cain from its birth, though a generation passed before the writing was deciphered.” The author means that tenement houses were “cursed,” or were terrible creations from the very beginning, but this was ignored and not tended to…

So I work for my dad in a family business we deal with pinball machines, slot machines, and restored arcade games such as Pac man. So on a day over the summer, I was hanging out with my friend Tyler fixing our cars and such. We went inside covered in grease when my dad came and talked to us about how he just received a call from a lady in Dayton. And that she had a broken Pac man machine that she wanted to get rid of. She said it had been damaged, but was still intact. This was a good deal for…

feed their families. This forced immigrants of all ethnic backgrounds to live in tenement houses. These houses contained multiple families in one narrow room. Each room had little ventilation, no heat, and no toilets (located outside with one toilet for every twenty residents). The tenements had health risks for every resident and were disease ridden for tuberculosis, among other ailments. The tenement house rent cost approximately four dollars a month, or one week’s pay. This was the harsh…

attended, we were required to participate in the annual inter-house sport event. This event was probably the least anticipated event all year, it was dreadful and tedious as there was nothing to look forward because there was no recognition for winners and we always had to clean up the fields after the events. Most students always voted against the inter-house sport event every year. Eventually, the school board changed the way the inter-house sport event was carried out so as to make it more…

Harris in her book Little White Houses illustrates how her grandparents purchased a house in a white neighborhood to hide their Jewishness (Harris, 2013). Harris had to examine the objects inside the home to negate the incorrect perception and interpretation the whiteness of the house reveals. The same process and attention that I take in the study of the houses is the same consideration I give to the objects within the home. Once I have a comprehensive…