It was sometime in the Summer of 1983. I was in solitary confinement down at the Clemens unit, TDCJ. I had just learned to read. Back then the only things allowed in the hole were a Bible and pair of boxers. They gave you a little mat (1 inch thick) at 10 :30 PM and…

I know there is a lot of this in prison. I myself am not a magic thinker although I do believe in magic 🙂 Magic thinking to me is to think when you walk out of prison everything will be just wonderful. I am not under any illusion that there is anything like a magic…

Our fortune is delivered to us by our habits. We can control our habits. Just in that knowledge alone is the key to freedom. “We can control our habits.” However, as we will learn a key is worthless without action. You have to put the key in the lock and turn it to open the…

Executioners are lurking in prisons across America, exterminating and slaughtering countless thousands each day. These murderers plunder in prisons victimizing millions of unaware men and women, even as I write these words. Who are these Deadly Killers? How can we recognize them? Where do we turn in times when we are locked in cadges with…

Little Miss Apple Tree speaks.

The Chief Botanist imagines his life.