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You ever find yourself watching a film… staring at the screen in total awe at how ridiculously strange the sequence of events that you are consuming are in front of your face? The weirdness captivates you in this unique way. There are moments where you snap out of your trance and think to yourself… “This […]

I think we all know the moment. That email you need to send but just can’t get yourself to hit the button. That ridiculously hard truth you need to tell her. That goal you keep kickin’ the can on because it scares you a little and matters a lot. We want to be courageous… we

What a kaleidoscope of emotion this past week has been over here. If you remember back in April… at my youngest son’s birthday… I told you that we would be here… at my oldest son’s birthday and I would do my best to emotionally keep it together leading up to the big day. Pretty mind

Are you ready for some football?! Yes… yes I most certainly am. I love this time of year. Football is back… fall weather is around the corner… the big holidays are coming up… the vibes behind these walls feel good and I like that. I was sitting in the TV room on Thursday night… anxiously

I do not want to write about this. I don’t want to watch the news. I don’t want to think about the devastation of the families that had children at that school. I don’t want to think about the parents of those two kids whose lives’ were taken from them. I don’t want this to

“Alright LT… lets fast forward 1 month from today. You’ve been retired now for… what…. a week or so? And you’re walking up to the register at Target… you get up to the check out person and you think… Man… this dude has absolutely NO idea what I have been through on a daily basis

I need to set the stage by giving the “layout” of my “house” so that you can get as close as possible to visualizing the following interaction. Even though… lets be honest… unless you have lived behind these walls… thankfully you won’t ever be able to genuinely grasp the reality of this environment. But we

Good Morning World. I say this because I come to you in the wee hours of Monday morning after a wonderfully hot… tremendously sweaty…. gloriously oppressed weekend of being locked down in the unit. Ahhh the joys of prison life. You don’t think about how much other people’s behavior is going to directly impact your

We have arrived at one our lovely limited computer access weekends over here. (Exasperated sigh and pause leading into a side note on this matter). I tell myself as I am approaching the computer that I am not going to tell you about my lack of computer access because it is complain-y and pointless to

I heard the chatter before I heard the news. This is how things typically go behind these walls. “Hollywood. They’re moving you homeboy. RDAP time bro”… I hear from multiple guys as I leave work Wednesday afternoon and walk back to “my” unit that apparently will no longer be my unit in a matter of