Articles tagged with: Christmas
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I can’t breathe. There’s no air in this room, even with the window cracked. That last breath was probably my last, and this is where it ends, in this apartment, this bedroom, this shrine to my childhood my parents have created. There’s the game ball from a no-hitter. A plastic trophy for graduating kindergarten. A framed newspaper article with a picture of me sliding into second, spikes raised thigh-high (I dare you to tag me, I dare you), a prom photo from the only one I didn’t take her …

I'm the founder of SideWalk Chalk, a non-profit in Charleston, SC that provides creative writing and visual art workshops in inner-city schools. Now I'm in the Pacific Northwest, listening to songs about the Carolinas, and falling in love with rivers and mountains.