Zach Horwitz

I sat down to write this past Friday after work and found myself thinking about the past week and what happened over the course of those 5 days and came to the realization that not much of note took place… well besides living… plain and simple… life just happened. Nothing major rocked my little world… […]

Okay… so I had a day this past week… well a day in a half. One of those days when I wake up… open my eyes… feel the cold cement wall to my left and the cold metal bunk under my right arm and think to myself… “Man… I am still here. Another prison day.”

I want to write this week in the hope that there is a Dad out there… sitting in his house… wrecked with nerves… embarrassment… disappointment… anxiety… consumed with the coulda – woulda – shoulda’s of his past actions… shaking his head because he can’t get the questions to stop firing through his brain… “How am

This is a story about a pleasantly surprising… beautifully eye opening and curiously unique phenomenon that I experienced this week and (as I have been thinking about it) have witness countless times since I have called T.I. home. It is a story of generosity and caring in an environment where neither of which would be

I was sitting in my room earlier this week and one of my “homeboys” called down to me and asked me to come to his room to talk for a minute. When I got in there… I immediately could sense that something wasn’t right so I asked him what was going on. He proceeded to

Well… I seem to have flowed into a new phase of this thing… a transition phase. I am finding myself in the part of the journey where I am seeing a lot of the guys that I have developed relationships with over the past year+ getting ready to go home. This is such an interesting

I cannot believe that my youngest son… my rambunctious… hilarious… sweet… loving… smart… adventurous…atheltic… handsome… knock knock joke telling little man… is turning 3 this weekend. I have been reflecting back all week on the year that has past since I wrote about his 2nd birthday this time last year and it is completely surreal

They can knock you down but they can’t keep you down! This week has been a lesson in understanding… internalizing and believing that there is always light at the end of the tunnel… as long as we keep walking. After an extremely hard week… this week has allowed me to see that light and walk

Man… this week was extremely hard. Guys tell me all of the time that there are only a few things that can happen inside these walls that can cause more stress or make your time “harder” than when something happens outside these walls in your real life. And they are not lying. Things happen in