The Blog
Notes from both sides of the wall
Writing about life inside, God, recovery, and learning to live in the free world. New posts land here as they’re written.
The Cracks Started Long Before the Cell
Everyone remembers the crime. Almost nobody asks about the years of cracks that came before it, in a house that looked fine from the outside. This is where my story actually starts.
Life After Prison
Written for my parole board after decades inside: how I prepared for a world I had never been part of, and why I knew I wouldn't go back.
Where Triggers Come From
My triggers didn't start with drugs; they started with a childhood I misread and emotions I ran from. Tracing them back is how they lost their power.
My Mother
She fought for me for forty years and never let go. Watching her battle cancer from behind a wall taught me what strength, mercy, and suffering with dignity really look like.
Hope: Living in the Face of Death
I once thought hope lived in what I had and what I could do. It took a life sentence, and the God who met me inside it, to find a hope that death itself can't touch.
Who I Am Now
Written from inside a life sentence: an honest inventory of the man God rebuilt. Patience, peace, and a purpose no cell could hold.
The Cracks Were There Long Before the Cell
Everyone thinks the story starts the night the doors slam shut. It doesn't. It starts years earlier, in the wounds nobody sees.