Here we are… we have entered year 3 of this journey of life behind a fence… this journey of life without life… what a journey it has been and will continue to be. There have been many emotions over the past week… some of which have been positive when I think about how myself and […]
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I have noticed over the past 6 months or so that one of my new “hats” in here is to be the guy that new guys come to if this is their first time incarcerated to walk the track and try to wrap their head around what they have in store for the next X
Ahhhhh it is good to be back! So a bit of an incident… well the largest incident (by far) since I have lived behind these walls happened last weekend and the whole institution was locked down for multiple days afterward. When something like this happens… it is not simply a situation where they make all
I found myself standing outside one evening this past week… staring toward the San Pedro hills just west of T.I and I couldn’t help but get the all too common thought regarding being so physically close to freedom but so far away out of my head. I was standing there… looking out over the hills
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I know that I have written about crazy days in the kitchen on a couple different occasions in here but this past Wednesday was absolute mayhem… good-ish mayhem… but mayhem none the less. Alright… the officers have decided that Tuesday is some variation of “Crispy Chicken Sandwich” day so every Tuesday we batter and fry
I have a bit of a “guilty pleasure” that I look forward to on Saturday mornings when I don’t have to work. One of the homeboys in the unit gets People Magazine and when he is done with them… he passes them along to me. I have to admit that I look forward to these
Another successful week of rehabilitation in the books and another unsuccessful week of NOT getting the computers fixed. So… will unfortunately need to keep this within my 5 minute limit to keep the peace amongst the homeboys. Cornbread Belgium waffles and fried chicken. I made that for the officers this past Thursday at work and
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What a week! This past week has certainly been one to write about but unfortunately part of the craziness is that all of the computers on the compound are down except for 1 (yes 1 computer for over 1000 guys). So… we have collectively (which I am very impressed by) decided that everyone has a
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Sometimes you get news that knocks you a bit off balance and you can’t seem to get it off your mind. This past Tuesday… I heard that a guy I worked with on a project years ago passed away from Colon Cancer at the age of 42. He left behind his wife and 2 children
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Every Thursday after work in the kitchen… I head over to Psychology for my weekly Mental Health Companion meeting. This is always one of the highlights of my week because it is yet another outlet that takes me out of this environment for an hour or so by mentally stretching me and providing an intellectual