This is my first post in over two months. I took a break and disappeared from the blog world. It was a temporary break though. I always knew I'd be back. Anyway, I figured the best kind of post for my "return" would be one that sheds light on my blog as a whole. I…
Dear Teenage Prisoner,
It's a sad world we live in, where being a teenage prisoner means you got lucky. It means the arresting officer didn't murder you. It means you can go on to become more than a two minute news segment and a hashtag. It's a confused world we live in, where being a teenage prisoner is…
You’re Free! Now What? Do These 3 Things.
You just got out, so, I know, you want to take a couple of days to just be. You want to relax and decompress. You need a few days of uninterrupted peace to get your mental house in order. Do that. Go ahead. But after those few days, you need to get moving. You'll find that the…
Writings of A Recently Released Convict
This morning, while rummaging through some old books and papers, I found this brief and lonely paragraph. It was inside of a notepad of writings I composed from 2002 to 2003. Most likely, it was written at some point in 2002, a couple of weeks or months after I was released from prison. I read…
The House of the Dead, by Dostoyevsky
This post will be less a review of the book and more a review of some portions of the book that I highlighted myself. I'll explain, sometimes with illustrations from my own life, why the parts I highlighted resonated so much with me. First, I must point out that, I believe, anyone who has spent…
Soul On Rice 