Update

I had a really tough conversation with a close “homeboy” this past week that I just can’t seem to get out of my head. He is getting out in a week and we have been talking… basically for the past year… about what he plans to do… how he is going to re-connect with his […]

Okay… I just have to say it…. Damn I miss my boys. As I rush to get to one of the 10 or so working computers this weekend to kneel down and write… I can’t help but think about the aspects of this current life that I cannot control and the way in which this

Well… it has certainly been an eventful week over here at T.I…. Storms…Program shifting events… eye opening “revelations” from these events… lessons learned along the way. Man… let me start from the beginning. As most of you likely saw on the news last weekend… Hurricane Hilary was heading right for LA. Now this type of

This week… I wanted to share a little “day in the life” story… Over the course of this journey I have been pleasantly surprised time and time again by the ways in which guys in here find their light within the darkness. Most of the time… as I have written about… it coincides with a

My oldest starts Kindergarten tomorrow! Okay… I will start with the selfish banter that has been consuming my thoughts this past week. I want to be there… I want to be there so f*cking badly. I want to wake up early and have a special breakfast ready for him in the morning. I want to

T.I. We have a problem! I woke up Saturday morning just as I always do on the weekends… well rested… slept in until almost 7am… it isn’t too hot yet so the sun shining in through the window is a welcome addition to the room… all is well in room 15. Lets start our day.

“What is that?” I think as I get closer to this brownish/gold round object on the floor of the dining room as I finish mopping Friday afternoon at work. As I get closer and look down… I realize that resting right by the salad bar is a heads up penny. A penny. An object that

This week I have been mentally consumed by two drastically different notions… 1 (the far lesser of the 2) – it is hot. And 2 – I miss my boys faces. Let’s start with #1… It is hot and when it is hot… it is very hot behind these walls. Thankfully… because T.I. is right

Rule number 1 for federal inmates… get comfortable being uncomfortable because just when you start to feel like you have it all figured out… the Feds have other plans for you. Case and point… I open my eyes early Sunday morning to loud shuffling outside of my door in the hallway of the unit. There

This week started out especially rough with yet another mind-numbingly horrific elementary school shooting in Nashville, TN. I just cannot wrap my head around the insanity of these shootings. The astronomical amount of them… the age of the victims… the horrible nightmares I have (and I am sure many others have) about it touching our