A Santa Mental Journey
A Santa Mental Journey by William Gaertner Gazing around a room I entered at 9:20 AM on Christmas Day 2009, I gave a “Ho! Ho! Ho!,” a few thumbs up, and walked to a seat in front of a cardboard fireplace by a Christmas tree that I had helped to decorate two weeks earlier. As…
LeRoy Sodorff, February 22, 2012
In my salad days, I was raised on a farm. Times were tough and we had to tighten our belts quite often even though I was surrounded by a bunch of animals much like I am today. Daddy would strut out to the lumber mill to work for chicken feed, but he always managed to…
Shawn A. Morgan- 10-20-11
excerpts from Shawn A. Morgan, 10-20-11 Man I am so bummed out right now. It seems like a million things are running through my mind right now. First above and beyond the normal for this animal depository they keep us in doing time, I am fearful and paranoid. Of what? Of who? The answer isn’t…
Bob Ansaldo, November 29, 2011 & December 5, 2011
Excerpt from entry November 29, 2011: Waiting for my transfer is messing with my security blanket. All change is scary, but changing prisons is way up there on the fear of change. Everyone I have talked to about Soledad, says it is much better than being here. They don’t even mention the tiny little cells. …
Sean Poulton, January 23, 2012
Sometimes I wonder if it’s worth it. I mean opening our hearts and allowing ourselves to be open to love and pain. I mean they go hand in hand and I’ve yet to see one without the other. Then I think of the two times I’ve been truly in love and I know, I’d never…