"I wear a bowtie now. Bowties are cool."

A South City native, I grew up on a little dead-end block over by Carondelet Park. That street was our world as kids--"Pod racing" down the alleyway on scooters, Friday night games of 'Release' (team hide-and-go-seek) or capture the flag, bonfires, block parties...it was such a beautiful community to grow up in. It helped me to learn that there really is more to a home than the four walls holding it up.

I ...