

A Love Story for a Mother
“What is your name?” my mother said to me on the fortieth day of my fifty-eighth year. We were clearing brush along the tree line of her...


Damon Fleming: Shoeshine Master, "Honest Hustler"
Basketball runs through Damon Fleming’s body up into his fingertips. As a kid he wanted to play in the NBA. He discovered he had natural...


The man with the AR-15 rifle (part 1)
The Mile Square, Indianapolis – March 24, 2018. That snow – thick and heavy – rolled up quickly into the ball of a snowman by a little...


The man with the AR-15 rifle (part 2)
The Mile Square, Indianapolis – March 24, 2018. “Protect kids, not guns!” they chanted – the old, the young, the kids, at the youth-led...


Meet Michael, the Drum Master
Meet Michael. Homeless in Indianapolis, he sleeps on the ground near the famed Lucas Oil Stadium by night and drums buckets underneath...