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I always loved playing some sort of question game during dinner parties that would spark interesting and dynamic conversations… take people outside of their comfort zones and mostly avoid the dreaded, mundane, surface level talk that tends to happen at most meal gatherings. I started thinking about the fact that my nightly track walks in […]

Man…. memories. The slideshow of my life outside these walls that plays in my mind on a daily basis is one of the best survival tools that I have been able to tap into since I have been at T.I. It allows for me to “escape” this reality for even a few moments and transport

When thinking about what is going on in my world this week… for some reason I kept coming back to dreams. I love them. I have always had a fascination with dreaming and the possible meaning behind them. What makes us dream… why can we only remember bits and pieces (if any of our dreams)…

I was listening to a song by Dermott Kennedy while walking the track the other night and one of the lyrics caught my attention… during the first verse there is a line…”birds need a reason to sing”. I immediately started the track over (because you can’t rewind or fast forward the actual song on our

Well… let’s just say the last 3 weeks have been unique to say the least. I have to begin with the week of September 16th… my oldest son’s 5th birthday. I could feel myself starting to get extremely anxious the week before his birthday week… all of the thoughts that I have tried to control

It is 6:58pm on Friday night and I am sitting in my room reading a book… feet propped up on my little “desk” drawer and all of the sudden I hear the unit officer yell, “REC!”. Immediately my brain explodes with curiosity and confusion… “What??!! Did I just hear that correctly?? We are allowed to

Another week of lockdown but I have been conscious about staying focused on my perspective and making the most of the situation this week. I think we can all relate to the feeling of life throwing us curveballs at times… making us feel completely out of sorts…. seemingly not in control of our situation and

Well… here we are again… the units that had tested positive were re-tested last week and the results were sent into a lab for processing… they came back a few day later and every unit that had tested positive previously once again had at least one guy test positive again. So… we continue down the

Well… yet another week of lockdown and another week of limited to obsolete computer access. There was absolutely no computer access this past weekend so obviously was not be able to write a full blog. Rumor has it that they are testing all the “hot” units today so hopefully everyone is negative and we are

Well this marks week 2 of COVID lockdown at T.I. and they have transitioned to allowing 0 – 5 minutes of computer access per day to remain “fair” to the units that have guys that tested positive and cannot leave the unit at all during the day. So, unfortunately I do not have time to