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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Halloween Comes too Close to Home

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As a kid, I really enjoyed Halloween. I remember being into my costumes a lot and having a lot of fun with trick-or-treating in my neighborh...
Monday, October 19, 2015

Ashes to Ashes

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This weekend I flew out west to help spread my father's ashes along Route 66, his favorite road. When he was much younger, he would trav...
Tuesday, October 13, 2015

My LGBTQ Rights

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This blog post is not going to be anything I've written before. I usually write here about my life inside and outside of prison, being a...
Sunday, October 11, 2015

Supervision Status

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I met with my P.O. again this week. I had to meet with him because I needed to fill out the paperwork again for travel approval. I am leavin...
Sunday, October 4, 2015

Creativity

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With the opportunity to work with students again in a teaching role, I was a little taken aback the other day when the students selected the...
Thursday, September 24, 2015

Specific Deterrence

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Reading for class tonight... “Specific deterrence refers to the idea that punishment reduces the crime of those specific people who ar...
Sunday, September 20, 2015

Finding my Dissertation Topic

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The entire time I was in my old education program, I never quite knew what I would focus on for my dissertation. I had many research areas I...
Monday, September 14, 2015

The Good Rabbi and Dad's Death

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If a person is to be away from family while mourning in the Jewish faith, there is perhaps no better time of the year than during the High H...
Sunday, September 13, 2015

RIP Daddy

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Rest in Peace to my father who passed at 4:01 pst this morning. He was 70 years old. I am glad he is out of pain after years of struggling w...
Sunday, September 6, 2015

A House Full of Students

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It's that time of year... a new semester of school. It's hard to believe I am back at school again. So many people I started this jo...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Another Semester

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Summer semester has officially ended and fall semester starts in just another week. Today grades posted for the independent study I took ove...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Two Years

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Two years ago today I self-surrendered to FMC Carswell. It feels like a lifetime ago and it still feels like yesterday. I have the two boxes...
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Sunday, July 26, 2015

What Current Prison Policy Means to People Like Me

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People are being released from prison. Obama has commuted some sentences, but even moreso, people who were sentenced under mandatory minimum...
Sunday, July 12, 2015

Hi. It's Been A While.

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Why have I not been writing? No good excuses except that I intend to start writing again now, so let me catch you all up with what is going ...
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Friday, June 12, 2015

Very Interesting Article!

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Why Orange is the New Black Differs from Women's Federal Prison
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Tuesday, June 9, 2015

7 Years

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Seven years ago, I walked into my first gamblers anonymous meeting. My parents begged me not to go at the time, fearing I would be admitting...
Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Six More Months of Federal Supervision?

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I heard back from my P.O. yesterday. We had a nice conversation. He wants me to come in and fill out the travel authorization paperwork agai...
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Friday, May 29, 2015

One Year

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I've been out of prison a year. In that time, I had the shortest stay possible at a halfway house, a month of home confinement, fought m...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Grades

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Last semester was one of my worst semesters academically since I've been back in graduate school. Instead of A's, B's and C'...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

An Emotional Year of School

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It's my week between classes. The official academic year ended Friday and summer session starts next week. I have a lot of catching you ...
Monday, April 20, 2015

No More Tax Refunds

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Sorry I've been so absent. Between how I've been feeling and our big move, I really have not had any energy. I know I've been ba...
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Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Official Mail from FMC Carswell

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It has been ten months since I left FMC Carswell. So today, when I received an official piece of mail from the facility, I was only joking w...
Saturday, April 4, 2015

Prison Dreams

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They happen. I had one just last night and they are so very real. I was inside again. I was back in prison. It was a prison dream. Only, bec...
Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Another Flare

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It's been a couple weeks now that I've not been feeling too well. The worse part is the fatigue. Every afternoon I could lay my head...
Friday, March 27, 2015

Freckles, RDAP, and Going Home

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As I get ready to do my last group with TDAT - that's the aftercare for the Residential Drug and Alcohol Program (RDAP) that I did in Ca...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Divorced Parents

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I always envy those divorced parents who are still friendly and can be friends after the chaos of separation. I have a friend whose parents ...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

My Lower Extremities

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I'm part of a research study. I'm not the researcher, but the one being researched. At the local medical school, they asked for volu...
Sunday, March 22, 2015

Freckles Prepares for FREEDOM!!!

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I'm getting ready to enter my last week of home confinement and my last week under halfway house supervision. I release from BOP cust...
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