Is Prison Life A Concrete Jungle How was it for you after completing your first year of a 3 to 5 prison sentence? Vernie Seidel How was it for you after completing your first year of a 3 to 5 prison sentence? I never did 3–5 years. I did 29 years on a life sentence. Read More…
Perspective
Life Is This, Outside The Self Lane
Life Is This, Outside The Self Lane – That’s Funny Stuff A young couple moved into a new house. The next morning while they were eating breakfast, the young woman saw her neighbor hanging the washing outside. “That laundry is not very clean; she doesn’t know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better Read More…
What People Really Make (and Spend) Behind Bars
By Beth Schwartzapfel What People Really Make (and Spend) Behind Bars People in prison get “three hots and a cot,” right? So, what do they need money for? A lot, it turns out. Prisons typically provide the bare minimum when it comes to food, clothes, shoes and hygiene supplies. Some states provide items such as Read More…
Forward We Sometimes must Go Backwards To Ge Ahead
Forward in Life feels like you’re going backwards sometimes, actually you might be making progress. “Sometimes things have to get worse before they can get better.” This is something that I only got recently.. I always heard this and thought “yeah, yeah, that’s probably true… for other people. I’m just going to cruise from one Read More…
The Gantt Report: War in A Political Babylon
The Gantt Report War in a Political Babylon If you listen to members of the Republican and Democratic parties, there is a political war going on, a war in a Babylon! The war talk is mostly a GOP thing but after Republicans armed themselves and attacked the United States capitol to prevent the orderly transition Read More…
The Gantt Report – Everybody Is An Expert
The Gantt Report I love blues music, classic blues music. Little Milton and his type are good but I’m talking about Son House, Muddy, John Lee Hooker and the like. Robert Johnson was a master blues musician. He could sing, he could play his guitar and he could definitely put on a show in the Read More…