I’ve been up to my ears in prison workshop administration chores, readying my humble abode for winter, and general depression for this past month. I’m not ready for snow. Plain and simple. But, just to get up on the step a little higher let me introduce a gang I joined recently. These gangsters keep me … More Great Gang Members (2 Women), Keeping it Light.

I have been catching a commercial on the TV these past few weeks advertising a show called “Main Street”. The hosts travel the U.S. to various towns to improve the small businesses there. Season 3, the current one, is in a town in Illinois. Alton, Illinois which happents to be the birthplace of Miles Davis. … More Me and Miles Hangin’ in the Hood. Get Your Kicks on Route 66.

And other life altering traumas for better or worse.  Probably the worst ever thing to happen to me was ‘bright-light birth’. I was not aware of its existence before it arrived, to the best of my knowledge. I mean no one told me that I was going to suffer this embarrassment. It just came along … More Square Needle in the Left Nut

Most of you know that I facilitate Alternatives to Violence Workshops in Maine State Prison. I have been doing so for about twelve years. The workshops are experiential in nature. The men I work with come in with questions and answers. I prefer to deal with the answers. While surfing the internet I run across … More Thoughts of Childhood Trauma

A previous entry here did not sit well with some of my friends. Herewith is a revised, and possible kinder version of what I took down last week. Peace. GMG During a recent men’s group held in front of a fire pit at Saul’s house in Megunticook, thoughts of a magical nature arrived unintended, but … More Spontaneous Human Combustion: Take 2

I didn’t go to the authorities right away. I lived with the anger, sleaze, resentment, disgust, and fear for a long time. Even after I approached the new Executive Officer of a nuclear submarine I was assigned to in 1960, three years after the incident, I was still not free of any guilt-feeling or fear … More My Own Experience with Sexual Assault