ASHER

I'm stretched out on my parents' couch, watching some old crime drama. While I've been out with my friends the other evenings, I stayed home today.

Even though I enjoy doing things with my friends, I also enjoy these quiet times with my family.

My mom made a pot of tea, and we all dressed up in comfortable clothes. Although we've been seeing each other much less since I started university, we do things like this more often than before. Perhaps I only truly appreciated them after I moved out.

"We were thinking about coming to one of your games again soon," my mother says to me as she...