Single room occupancy

stars. They burn fast and bright, then for no real reason, or for reasons we can’t understand, fade forever. They say space might be infinite but that means infinite stars, too, if you think about it. Some have to collide. Some have to burn out to make room for the next. It’s freshman year and my mom helps me move cross-state from Colorado to Nebraska, unload my stuff in giant rolling laundry carts into McGloin Hall, my home for the next nine months. McGloin is supposed to be just for…

notebook. The only light was coming from my desk in the opposite corner of the small room and the sole sound was my computer faintly playing my country playlist through the speaker. In the darkness, I was easily drawn to the…

Crevices and Rooms filled of times of my past and present. The good: open with welcoming smiles to anyone. The bad and ugly: locked but with the key still in the hole for anyone willing to enter. My mind is colorful to say the least. I can be thinking of anything at any given moment. There’s a room at the farthest point of the hallway, its door the darkest of red, the doorknob the same color. This is the room that my deepest fear stays trapped in. With my deepest fright stuck in this room, I can…

“I thought and pondered-vainly. I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing replies to our anxious invocations.” shelley This is how I feel as I attempt to pinpoint the crucial events that have made up my present day psych. I suppose I am made up differently than most students at Poughkeepsie Day School. To begin my mind floats to age three, where the mess began. I can still see the sun peaking in; it lightly brushing the creamy…

“The Pedestrian” supports this argument because almost all of the people in the story are doing this except Leonard Mead. What Steinbeck is trying to say in his quote is that people do not want to stand out. So they always stay inside with the people they trust and use electronics so they don’t have to go face to face with others. In “The Pedestrian”, Leonard Mead always walks alone at night, on his journey the author describes Meads walks by writing about the houses, the author writes that “on…

deflation is easy thanks to the patented 1-click internal pump. In less than 5 minutes, the SoundAsleep Dream Series Air Mattress can be fully inflated. And topping it off is quick and easy. Whether you want to install this in your bedroom or the spare room in your apartment, this model is up to the…

villa were the taberna’s or shops. The wealthy rented the shops out to people. These rooms had doors that opened into the street. But these were not connected to the house in any way. Directly behind the atrium was the office or tablinum. “In this room the family records were stored; here was the chest containing family finances. Here also elite families would display the imagines, busts of famous ancestors. In this room, too, the master of the house, the paterfamilias, would greet his many…

The aroma that makes your mouth so watery that you wanna eat whatever you’re smelling is this little room in my house where I love to spend most of my time when I’m home, is my kitchen. Almost every single day of the week when I get home I automatically go straight to the kitchen and sit at my little wooden table that is on the right side of the kitchen when you walk in. This kitchen is definitely not modernized with all the fancy cabinets and super cool gadgets that comes with it. Instead, my…

There was a marble-topped washstand by her bed; on it were a glass with a teaspoon in it, a red ear syringe, a box of absorbent cotton, and a steel alarm clock standing on three tiny legs. (Lee 141). Harper Lee wrote this description of Mrs. Dubose’s bedroom in the Pulitzer Prize winner, To Kill a Mockingbird. When compared to the Academy Award winning film, To Kill a Mockingbird has many similarities differences, and omissions. The narrator of the novel, Scout Finch, takes the reader on an…

iii. Make the sector more lovely, start with harmonizing your house and make for yourself a tantric place. iv. Be more aware, start with everyday by being conscious of your respiration. v. Take obligation for your own existence, your moves and your emotions. Take responsibility in your life. Avoid blaming people for your doings or actions. vi. Experience accuracy usually by feeling better. Perceive how you feel. Then receive or accept how you sense. If you want, cross for happiness and trade…