Her previous columns may be found in the archives . The French doors are locked, the blinds closed.
Newspapers litter the walk.
No one's living in the sunny patio room of Salome Smith's vanilla bungalow on Farragut Avenue just north of Memorial Park. A room that represents independence. This is about the teen-age boys at the Emily Griffith Center who must figure out how to follow the rules, be the masters of their own fates, stay out of handcuffs, courtrooms and detention centers. And this is about Salome Smith, who willed her bungalow to them. When the teen boys show signs of rehabilitation, when they've moved away from the bad choices that brought them here, when they've earned it, they're offered residence in Salome's patio room.