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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

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

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

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

Here we are… another weekend of “server failure” and a mad rush to the available computers during the moves… thankfully the computers are down on the North Yard this time so it is a much shorter walk for us “south-siders”. But given the fact that I have a limited amount of time… I will focus

Kindness. In a time when there is so much hatred… division… violence and destruction in the world… specifically in Israel… I have tried my best to focus on a “simple” act of kindness that I was lucky enough to experience this past week. I must say before diving in that this has been much easier

Small victories. I have touched on this notion numerous times while I have lived behind these walls and these past couple weeks have provided some serious case study for the joy that these small victories can bring to my life. It has also highlighted the importance for myself or anyone coming into these circumstances to

It seems as though another transitional period has begun at T.I. over the past week and heading into next week… so many guys are heading home or moving on to camp. It is such a strange experience when the releases come in waves like this because there is absolutely no indication that any of these

Well…I have been sent back to “COVID” times (not really THANKFULLY) but as it relates to my computer access… right back to the mad rush to beat the line for the limited amount of keyboards. This time… it is due to a server outage on the South yard causing the entire compound to use the