by Jodie | Feb 1, 2018
FROM NORTHWESTERN MAGAZINE Feb. 1, 2018 He gushed about how he had upgraded to a multi-CD stereo, how he diligently kept track of the mileage per gallon he averaged in a notebook that he stored in his glove compartment. I smiled dreamily. I didn’t really care what he...
by Jodie | Dec 18, 2017
FROM THE ATHLETIC Slim Bouler carted his scrapbooks to Charles L. Sifford Golf Course in Charlotte, and now he’s flipping through the pages as he sits outside the clubhouse of the 9-hole course where he first learned the game that both earned and cost him so much....
by Jodie | Aug 25, 2016
FROM THE CHARLOTTE MAGAZINE Aug. 25, 2016 DUSK was closing in along the edges of uptown Charlotte when the man seemed to appear out of nowhere. He startled me. “Excuse me,” he said. “Can I see behind you?” I had just plopped down on the metal seat at the trolley stop...
by Jodie | Aug 2, 2016
FROM THE CHARLOTTE MAGAZINE Aug. 2, 2016 IN THE DAYS after Travis Moore was murdered, his older sister, Tomika, started a scrapbook where she could store her favorite memories of her brother. As she glued photos of Travis into the book, she remembered his constant...
by Jodie | Feb 12, 2012
FROM THE PLAIN DEALER Feb. 12, 2012 CLEVELAND, Ohio — In the days after Chris Jacquemain failed his first drug test, after he’d gone through a detox program to rid his body of the prescription painkillers he couldn’t stop taking, it was clear the...
by Jodie | Oct 17, 2009
FROM THE PLAIN DEALER Oct. 17, 2009 AUGUST 6, 2008 Not one day of practice has passed before it all begins. The first high school coach is camped out in the parking lot next to the St. Thomas More practice field, that patch of grass in the shadow of the round,...
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