Author: Jamal

She had made the decision to move in with the girls and they counted on her to stay there and pay rent for at least a year Our daughter thought that since she was in college, she should not be living with her parents anymore. I kind of shrugged and simply said okay. I felt […]

Our granddaughter was with us last week when we passed a prison. She was really nervous going past the building and she had all kinds of questions. She made Papa pull over so she could look at the sharp wire all along the walls. He told her that there were some people inside who were […]

Our son thought that when he went to college, he was going to have the same comforts that he had at home. He and three other guys were sharing a dorm room. They had two sets of bunk beds, and small desks at the end of each bunk bed so the kids had their own […]

I knew I wasn’t going to be able to get much work done, since the heat was slowly climbing. When I started grad school, I moved out of the cramped apartment that I shared with three other roommates. I was soon going to finish law school, and I would need enough room to spread out […]

I was considering moving yesterday. I had already told my wife that I thought we needed a change in scenery. She kissed me and told me to hold that thought until she got home from work. She didn’t ask me where I wanted to move, or even why I thought I needed to move. I […]

My wife had what she called a Tweety-bird from the time she was a little girl. When one parakeet died, we would buy another one, because she loved the sound of the bird in the morning. Our most recent parakeet had only been with us for about a month, when it suddenly passed away. It […]

My husband and I had been saving for our honeymoon for almost five years. Although we had been married for five years now, we were finally going to go on our honeymoon. We booked a hotel that was going to cost us over $2000 a night. The hotel was right by the ocean. Every room […]

We had to have our furniture delivered and installed For the last year, we had been watching the construction on our home as it progressed. We were finally seeing it go from frame, to a finished product. The only thing left to be done, was get our HVAC system and have it installed. I was […]

We have had the same furnace for over ten years now. The furnace still ran well and it kept us warm in the winter time. I knew that it was time to have it replaced. It wasn’t that it was a bad furnace, but I had noticed its efficiency wasn’t so good anymore. Our energy […]

I don’t know about you, but sometimes I just want to escape reality. Last week, I imagined I was on a deserted island. There was nothing on the island but me, the trees, and endless miles of beaches where I could fish and sunbathe. I know that wasn’t a very grown-up thing to do, however […]