by David Applegate | Jul 28, 2016 | Blog, David Applegate
Greetings from Beijing July 28, 2016 No, we did not get an influx of Chinese inmates. However, it does seem like we have adopted that city’s weather patterns. Due to a combination of 110 degree temps, an inversion layer, and smoke from several forest fires, we...
by David Applegate | Jul 22, 2016 | Blog, David Applegate
The Death Penalty July 22, 2016 Ah, a nice light hearted topic for the weekend! Seriously, though, I just did my 7th Toastmaster’s speech yesterday (three more to go!). I was inspired by a book I read a while back to speak about the death penalty. The book is...
by David Applegate | Jul 13, 2016 | Blog, David Applegate
Movies and More July 13, 2016 Today is the 18 month “anniversary” of my arrival here at the Taft prison camp. While I am not *celebrating* it does seem like the time has gone fairly fast and that’s a good thing! Yesterday I gave my sixth talk at...
by David Applegate | Jul 5, 2016 | Blog, David Applegate
A Little Life July 5, 2016 I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend! Holiday weekends are pretty much the same as every other weekend here. Although we DID have watermelon for our dessert at lunch yesterday! Yum! 😀 The highlight of the weekend for me was...
by David Applegate | Jun 26, 2016 | Blog, David Applegate
Toastmasters! June 26, 2016 Before I get to Toastmasters, what were the British thinking???? I was truly shocked when I woke up Friday morning and saw they had voted to leave the EU. I predict they will come to regret that vote once Scotland peels off, all the banks...
