Articles tagged with: suicide
Hope and Doubt, Stare Unblinking »
I’m not certain of anything anymore. I’m a teenage lover sitting on a bed, skin tingling, scared to death but unable to stop, not having the slightest idea of how anything works. Until now life was so simple. I was a child, a child living in a world where everything was beautiful and was made up of baseball and summer crushes and black Reebok Pumps. Life is more complicated than that now, and during honest moments I admit that I can’t handle my life. It’s a rip tide. I can …

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.