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Animal Farm
January 23, 2016 A rural upbringing can create some lasting memories. I remember when I was age 12, I had a very close, face-to-face encounter with a possum while building an elaborate fort in our hay barn. I know now that I scared him, as his response was to open his...
Perspective
When I was 14, after watching me get thrown out again attempting to steal second base, my dad told me, "You run too long in one place." This came as a shock to me as from my perspective I was moving fast. But I remember that his comment changed my perspective until I...
Snow
We're hunkering down at Camp fed waiting for the season's first snow storm, the y have cancelled visiting for the weekend because of the forecasted N'or Easter, I doubt it will happen but who knows. The men who work the landscaping and grounds crews were putting...
Whatever
If there is anything to learn from a prison experience, and there is certainly a lot to learn, it would be to adopt an attitude of, ok, let's take it as it comes and go with the flow. Actually, while you are a prisoner that is the only way to be because you are no...
MLK Day: Free at Last
If you’re lucky, you’ll experience one moment in your lifetime when the clamor and clanking of everyday life culminates. Almost poetic in its timing, when you think you can’t listen for another, split second to the excruciating noise around you, it becomes – in an...
Happy New Year!!
Happy New Year!! January 2, 2016 What a year it has been! On the one hand, it seems like it wasn't that long ago Kenny and I were having our last dinner together at Lisa and Gary's; and my last dinner as a free man. On the other hand, that seems like an incredibly...
This Week in Jesup
This Week in Jesup. The finger I had surgery on is very stiff. I am working with an old handball to exercise it to gain some range of motion. You work out your own physical therapy plan in prison. Tonight they had a post production party for the cast of the holiday...
Clutter
i would like to thank the BOP for something else today, to making me realize that I don't need all the clutter and stuff in my life that I have at home. Additionally, the BOP has ingrained in me the preciousness of space, and how to deal best with the major lack of...
Going With The Flow
January 15, 2016 It may be theoretically possible for a person to willfully change his character. However, if I tried that, chances are my new character would be just as screwed up as the old, as any change I concocted would be based on my own self-centered ego. My...
Showers
Since I'm winding down my stay here at Camp Fed I thought I would share the proper shower technique with my readers and for anyone who is about to enter the system. Most importantly, Rule #1 you MUST always have on shower shoes, do not ever let your bare feet touch...
