Yesterday, for the first time in over two years, I stepped into the Charleston Police Department. I am completing my application for teaching in Chile and one of the requirements is a letter confirming a criminal background check from the police depa...

This weekend I had a special visitor, my 16-year-old brother Eddie. Eddie lives year-round with my mother in New Jersey and in the four years that I’ve lived in Charleston, I think this is only his second time visiting. Eddie is the sweetest, kinde...

It was a complex game of cutthroat strategery, and two rounds in I thought for certain that mine was a lost cause. The card game I was playing was called “Oh, Shit,” and I was playing against Kevin and his parents, Sue and John in their rented co...