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I don’t know if it would be considered confirmation bias or possibly some form of the ‘recent-cy effect’ but there have been numerous occasions in here where I have a conversation with someone and then at some point in the near future… I am reading an article or a book and ‘BAM’… there it is. […]

I started to write something… then I deleted it and started thinking about something else to dive into this week but here I am… back at the original starting line because I can’t stop thinking about and day dreaming about it… love. The reason that I deleted my first pass was because I started feeling

And just like that… another month has passed. I have touched on it before but the obsession with time in here would make one be inclined to think that it would crawl by at a snail’s pace but for whatever reason… you blink and it is Friday again. I guess that is a good thing

Let me put you up on game real quick (as the “homeboys” would say in here). Cardinal rule while you are living behind these walls… ‘If they are good…. You are good’. I cannot express how important this notion is to remember and how incredibly true it is as it relates to your mental health

Well… I feel as though I have accomplished something as this week comes to a close. I finished what is known in here as “Non-Res” aka Non-Residential RDAP (Drug and Alcohol Program that you do prior to the bigger residential program) after 6 months of meetings, homework, reading, discussions, presentations and much more introspection and

“Hollywood. It is the Nineteenth of June… we are free my boy… well I’m not free but you know what I mean… it is time to get this mothaf*cka on and crackin… Bingo time!!” This is how I started my day this past Wednesday… Juneteenth. I was sipping coffee in my room around 630am and

Happy Father’s Day weekend to all the Dad’s out there… especially the ones behind the gates or about to be behind the gates. It is certainly a unique time of year for guys in here… elicits so many emotions… memories… wishes… regrets… smiles and tears. But it also provides an opportunity to reflect on the

Communication. I planned on writing about how important communication with the outside world is for guys in here this week but fittingly… given my living situation… our computer access has been completely denied for most of the week. And even now… as I kneel down to write this (Sunday Morning)… I am limited to 5

The Republican candidate (possibly the leading candidate in general) for the Presidency of the United States of America is a convicted felon. Now… before I get in too deep… I am in no way throwing stones as I kneel here and type this from my glass house… but between the chatter between the guys in

I stand back… as does everyone else in the room because it is impossible not to notice… and give him some space to let him go through whatever is happening on the other side of that phone. Eventually he lets the phone go… just drop from his ear… hanging from the phone itself… and he