Update

I’m just sitting down in my room after a shower last Sunday night… winding down from the day and setting up the menu for the week ahead when one of the “homeboys” walks into the room…. “I am a 15 minute Father”… he says as he sits down in the chair opposite me. “My son […]

I have a little tradition on the weekends. I wake up about 30 minutes before the sun is going rise (I listen to an AM radio station before bed that tells me the weather and when the sun will rise and set the next day. I know… strange. But it always makes me think of

The score is 0 – 0. It’s almost 8:40am and has been this way for about 35 minutes now but the TV room is electric. Every seat is taken and all eyes are glued to the center TV where the Gold medal game for Woman’s soccer is unfolding. Every single time the ball approaches either

I was watching a segment on TV this past Thursday about a futuristic technology that would have the ability to implant memories into our minds’ so that we genuinely and fully believe we have experienced something or learned something that we have not fully experienced past the participation in the “implantation process”. The segment theoretically

Okay. So crazy things happen in here seemingly on a daily basis but sometimes… oh man… sometimes something happens that makes me shake my head and think… “Okay… I have truly seen it all now.” Let me take you back to this past week… There is a guy that lives a few “houses down the

I received a real gift in the mail this past week. Let me preface this by genuinely stating that any pictures that I am lucky enough to get in here are massive gifts in themselves as they allow me to escape my reality for a bit while I examine every detail of every picture… vicariously

One of the hardest parts of this whole journey is discovering and then ultimately accepting the fact that once you are behind these walls… you have very little (if any) control of anything in your life that is outside the gates. It is a tough pill to swallow and one that many guys in here

Interesting revelation over here this week. So… it is my youngest son’s birthday next Tuesday and this has historically been a really hard time for me throughout this journey. I was arrested 17 days before his 1st birthday and then have lived behind these walls for every birthday since then… which has understandably weighed extremely

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

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