It was a chilly winter’s day in 2006, and I was trying to decide what I’d wear to watch some fellow Central Mass. middle schoolers play basketball. Flipping through a closet filled with bedazzled ...

I was autographing melons in the produce aisle of a Cape supermarket, part of a strategy to grow my brand, when a shopper asked me what I had been up to this winter. This somehow cued a flashback, ...