Team Gray!

I had a tricycle until I was 6. I rode it up and down the Chicago sidewalks. I got very good at it, too. I was six when we moved to Nashville, and I still rode my trike up and down our new street, Edwin Warner Drive. Grandmommy Alma sent Zeke and me our first [...]

We brought our swingset from Nashville with us. It was metal, green, like our volkswagon, and white striped. It seemed to me as a child that my mother wanted everything in that same shade of green. She even had daddy paint our house in Chicago to match that distinct shade of blue/green.

In the alley, we all played together, despite what age we were. My closest friend was almost three years younger than I was. I had friends in the alley that were a little older, too. The only one who was my age and grade in school was Karl. He mostly kept to himself, and he [...]