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 […]
Well… it’s time to say so long to good ol’ 2023. Isn’t that crazy? I have touched on it many times but this notion of time flying by continues to blow my mind in here. I was thinking about this earlier today while I was working out and I kept telling myself… “Yeah it is
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As we are festively celebrating Christmas weekend… I really just want to wish everyone out there Happy Holidays and hope that you are enjoying and cherishing every single second of it with family… friends and loved ones. We are doing all we can in here to make the most of the holiday as well. In
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I have discussed the importance of this many times over the past couple of years but this past week it was front and center when I looked back on the week and thought about what came to mind. As I discussed last week… it was a rough one in here to start the month… just
This week has hit all the highs and lows of the emotional roller coaster that is life behind these walls. Started the week off knocking off birthday number 2 in here and I spent the day feeling extremely grateful for the people in my life… grateful for the unexpected and heart warming love that I
Well… it’s about to be birthday number 2 behind these walls. I have been thinking a lot this past week about how I feel in regard to it and honestly… the overwhelming emotion is a feeling of “we are doing it”. We… as in myself and everyone that has been touched by this journey is
Thanksgiving. This is by far my favorite time of year. The weather gets crisp and cool… the holiday music… the holiday spirit in the air… whatever it is about the end of Fall into the beginning of winter… it just makes me happy. Now this joyful… holiday cheer is certainly a bit different living behind
Sometimes I have days in here that I look back on either later that night or the day after and just shake my head and laugh. Like who would have thought that would have happened in a place like this? Who would have thought that I would be doing what I am doing in a
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When I kneeled down to write this weekend… thinking back on the past week… there is one conversation that I cannot get out of my head… one conversation that I wasn’t going to write about… that I didn’t want to write about but why write at all if I am not going to genuinely express
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I had a really tough conversation with a close “homeboy” this past week that I just can’t seem to get out of my head. He is getting out in a week and we have been talking… basically for the past year… about what he plans to do… how he is going to re-connect with his