The room where I spend most of my time is bare. It has a concrete floor, concrete block walls, two windows that look out onto the center lawn of Taft prison camp. Every morning, just before 3:00, I sit at a round, Formica-topped table. I’m alone until I go outside to exercise at 6:00. I love the [...]
I’ve been looking at my schedule, and I realize that in a few weeks, I’ll probably have time to resume my blogging responsibilities. Earlier this year I was writing between 20 and 40 blogs each week for the various websites Carole maintains for me. Since beginning my new manuscript, I suspended those activities to focus [...]
For the past six weeks I’ve been taking an allergy pill. I would like to purchase my own pills from the commissary, as they do not require a prescription. Yet, to receive the allergy pills, the rules at Taft Prison Camp require that I pass through health services procedures. That means I must sign up [...]
This morning I woke at 2:37, refreshed from more than eight hours of sleep. Ever since last November I’ve been on this schedule of going to sleep in the late afternoon and waking when most all the other prisoners sleep. Now I’m used to these hours. I really look forward to this time I can [...]
