If you are just ‘tuning in’… take a look at last week’s post (Halfway House of Horror) for context before diving into this one The morning started a bit hectic. There was an “incident” the afternoon prior that caused the yard to be locked down and the phones to be shut off (which is standard […]
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This week hurt… it still hurts and unfortunately I have a sickening feeling that it is going to continue hurting before it gets better. It is the kind of week… with the kind of news… that makes you drop your chin… shake your head… take that deep labored breath and the words “F*ck man”… fall
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I often wonder… how much of this wildly insane “social experiment” am I going to remember on the other side of this journey? I know that I will remember the milestone moments… the truly unique characters… the aspects that weave my real life into the fabric of my ‘for now’ life but what about the
I wasn’t going to write about this. I don’t exactly know why. Maybe it felt too personal… maybe because it involved the boys and their Mom. I’m not certain as to the reason I felt that I could not share this experience but as I sat down to write… this was the only thing that
Well… I have good news and not so good news this week. Lets kick things off with the good news… I walked into the computer area on Thursday morning and to my absolute shock… sitting in front of half of the computers (all of them would just be too good to be true) were these
Let me take you back to last Sunday… “Oscar Sunday”. Now… the perspective that I am able to ‘unpack’ writing this today is one that I certainly could not have articulated or grasped at the beginning of the journey… which I guess… is part of the journey itself. But lets not get ahead of ourselves…
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I slowly open my left eye… keeping my right closed as at this hour of the morning… it just seems like way too much to open both eyes. I reach my left arm up toward the ledge that I built to hold my books and my watch during the night and check the time…. as
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I haven’t been able to get the notion of health out of my mind this week… I guess I’m still riding the wave of my thoughts from the week prior but I seem to mentally wander into the idea of ‘social health’ every time I slow down a bit and am left with my thoughts.
“Where would I be without you… I only think about you… I know you’re tired of bein’ lonely… So babygirl… Put It On Me… Yeah… Yeah”. Ahhh…. Ja Rule in the late 90s and early 2000’s holds such a stronghold in my memory. Every single time I hear “Put It On Me” or “Mesmerize” or
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It is extremely rare these days for me to experience a “prison event” behind these walls that I have not come in contact with during my stay here. This is a very good thing because new is certainly not better when it relates to prison. You want your days to run smoothly… your program to