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Friday, February 20, 2015

Freckles - the HWH and Medical Care

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In coming from a medical facility - I really didn't have "high hopes" of prompt or proper medical care while at my half way ho...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

A Chance to Say "Thank You"

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I've been asked to speak at a regional gambler's anonymous conference as a closing speaker. Being the closing speaker is great... le...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Timehopping and Forgiving My Former Program

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I was looking at an application on my phone that has me look back at this day in time and "repost" things to facebook if I think t...
Monday, February 16, 2015

Where are they now?

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I decided to do some research on my friends left in Texas. I knew some of them may have been transferred away, or were hoping to, so, I went...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Where are you all at?

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So, I get these statistics that "kind of" tell me where my readers are at, but I'm curious where you are 'really' at. ...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

The Secret Revisited

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Tonight, Sporty, our new GA sponsee and myself gathered at our home for dinner and a showing of "The Secret." If you remember, abo...

Amazing Opportunities

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As we all know at this point, my school did not have to sweeten their offer of acceptance to me much to get me to choose to attend the schoo...
Monday, February 9, 2015

Freckles' Long Bus Ride

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When people are not a medical risk, as I was deemed (although my doc never saw me), transportation upon release of prison does not usually i...
Saturday, February 7, 2015

It is Official - I'm Back!!!!

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I received an official email this afternoon congratulating me as a new admit as a doctoral student in the criminal justice college at my Uni...
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Friday, February 6, 2015

Federal Supervision Overload

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I've been in contact with my parole officer a lot lately... too much for comfort if I do say so myself. When I received permission to go...
Wednesday, February 4, 2015

29 Days on Whole30

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Wednesday is officially day 30 of my Whole30 food elimination. For the past 29 days I have intentionally not ingested any grains, legumes, d...
Sunday, February 1, 2015

FCI Lexington

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This weekend, I attended a GA conference in Lexington, Kentucky. It was a fantastic conference. It was not the biggest gambler's anonymo...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Freckles and Men at the HWH

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Here's another edition of life at a federal halfway house by Freckles. I find it fascinating that her experience is so interlaced with t...
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Friday, January 23, 2015

Letters Home

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Last night I stayed up late reading a pile of letters I wrote to Survivor. I asked Survivor, Cashe, Traveler, and Sporty to provide me with ...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

A Halfway House for Freckles

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Before parting, I asked Freckles to be part of the future of this blog. I wanted her experience in her HWH to be able to be here since my HW...
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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

No Cake?

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Being on this Whole30 diet this month means that we had some limitations on how to celebrate my birthday. For the first time in over two wee...
Monday, January 19, 2015

The Scariest Weekend and the Week the Blog went Down

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As my birthday approaches tomorrow, it is taking me back to last year, being at Carswell, and remembering the scariest weekend I had while i...
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Sunday, January 18, 2015

Losing a Couch

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Back in my gambling days, my poor steering wheel used to get a real beating. Nearly every time I left a casino, having gone after I'd to...
Thursday, January 15, 2015

A New Sponsee

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One of the greatest gifts of being in a recovery program is the opportunity to give back. So many people are there for you when you first wa...
Monday, January 12, 2015

Crime Does Not Exist

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I made it as far as the top paragraph of the first page of my criminal theory book before I picked up my phone and started typing this.  It ...
Sunday, January 11, 2015

70,000 Page Hits

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Sometimes I wonder how many people stumble across this blog and are like "that's not what I was looking for..." and quickly le...
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Saturday, January 10, 2015

The Whole30

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I've decided to finally do the elimination diet I was planning on doing prior to the passing of my grandma. Then, I got through one day ...
Friday, January 9, 2015

I Must Be Doing Alright

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I reported a couple months ago that after my mandatory counseling intake, the counselor felt I was not in need of the organization's ser...