Channeling My Mother

When I was younger, and up until this very day, my mother has made sure that our home is the absolute beacon of what season it is outside.  Having recently come back from a trip up north, it was no shock that the house was lightly festooned with autumn and Halloween trinkets.  Since my sister and [...]

People Come Here On Vacation? (part three)

A week prior to our trip, Julius was cutting and dying our friends hair, a cute couple.  They’re both teachers, he’s a mathematician…this is where the secret of Roulette comes in.
“It’s the law of averages, ya see?”  he says, drawing on a piece of paper.  I quickly remember the very experiment we did in school [...]

People Come Here On Vacation? (part two)

I picked up the room service menu on the desk in our room, just to look at it, see what it had to offer.  I almost choked.  I’d never seen a ten-dollar glass of orange juice before.  I mean I’d heard all the jokes and anecdotes about room service, but never had I seen this.  [...]