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I found myself standing outside one evening this past week… staring toward the San Pedro hills just west of T.I and I couldn’t help but get the all too common thought regarding being so physically close to freedom but so far away out of my head. I was standing there… looking out over the hills […]

I know that I have written about crazy days in the kitchen on a couple different occasions in here but this past Wednesday was absolute mayhem… good-ish mayhem… but mayhem none the less. Alright… the officers have decided that Tuesday is some variation of “Crispy Chicken Sandwich” day so every Tuesday we batter and fry

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

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

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

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