Having been in Morgantown for two years, the upcoming holidays will be my third time celebrating them from the clink, which began with Thanksgiving on Thursday. While I blogged last week about the lapsing quality of the food being served, the Thanksgiving dinner was outstanding. Both white and dark turkey...

When I arrived at FPC Morgantown two years ago, the almost home-cooked meals impressed me. Food quality, taste, and portions defied my prison expectations. Alas, budgetary restrictions relinquished the exceptional standards for meals. Now, the mess hall lives up to its reputation. Over the past year, the quality of food...

Just recently, I read a purely fictional whodunit book by Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone, which is not my typical read. One quote interestingly reflects on prison: "Prison is a good perspective, it feels like everything stays still while the world spins around you." Often, I...

In mid-September, a fellow inmate approached me to ask if I would be able to help him with his job. He was in a bind. He confided that he was transferring to another prison to be closer to home. Since the transfer was pending, he asked for my strict confidence...

Over the past few weeks, the prison band, Another Day Down, has been practicing for an upcoming concert and graduation ceremony that we played on Friday. The graduation went really well. He played No Woman No Cry (Bob Marley), Southern Cross (Crosby, Stills, & nash), Brown Eyed Girl, and Wagon...

A part of me cannot believe that I've been incarcerated for 23 months. Much time has passed and many life events missed, but time passes quickly due to staying active and busy. First arriving in Morgantown in November of 2022, the First Step Act of 2018 was the hot topic....

I first learned the song, "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall", during a roundtrip for a family vacation. My sister and her friend began singing it as if it is the anthem of a rebel. The off-key scream-singing of those two adolescents annoyed the parents, which I believe was...

Last week, Hurricane Helene unleased a fury of destruction, of which recovery and rescue strategies drove the first topic in the Vice Presidential Debate on Tuesday. The breadth of the debate proffered hope between two ideological opponents. This solemn discussion seemed to humanize and maintain a respectable and wholesome decorum,...

Nearly every day this September month provided near perfect weather: clear sunny skies and cool crisp nights, which made viewing the super moon exceptional. THEN, the wrath of what was Hurricane Helene swirled some nasty and wet weather toward us that resulted in much needed water to quench the August...