Before I came here I heard rumors that many prisons and jails had pickle ball. Unfortunately, prisons aren't like hotels and you can't get on the internet to check on the accommodations prior to your arrival. I lucked out that we have one indoor court...
Now that I have found myself in the swing of things I am beginning to cook more. It is time consuming, but we have plenty of that and cooking is about more than simply making food to eat. In here, there is a sense of...
This book was written by the same authors as the blockchain book I recently read. I enjoyed their writing style and the layout of the first book so I decided to give this one a go. Learning about technology, or anything new, keeps my mind...
Everything finally clicked with John Lennon's Imagine. I love this song, it feels so so good to play, especially considering all the effort I put in. After breakfast and before work call I head downstairs when the music room is empty (before 7am). I turn...
Yankton FPC has a fairly large Native American population and with today being ahem, "Columbus Day" I felt I would share a story I recently read. When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were training for Apollo II they were in the Western United States and there...
This book was recommended to me last year and unfortunately I wasn't in the headspace to read it - which was a shame. There was so much ruminating in my mind about everything that had recently occurred, what life was going to look like moving...
Update on the Mp3 player. I actually could not handle walking the track and listening to music at the same time. After almost 120 days without music it was literally too much. For now, I started listening to music the way people used to. I...
Like anywhere else in the world, people in prison really enjoying creating and using nicknames. Yankton has it's fair share of typical prison nicknames. Killer, Chainsaw and Tiny (who is obviously huge) to name a few. I was here for roughly one hour before I...
Tuesday morning started in a way I never could have planned for. First, I recently finished Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind. The final chapters of the book, the culmination of everything Harari writes, comes together in an absolutely soul stirring way. Through his insights...
I have an orange and yellow spiral bound notebook I've been using for a variety of writing topics. Not long musings, but short, spur of the moment inspiration I want to save and come back to later. If an idea from a book or a conversation...