2010-07-01 20:02
We have both survived the 1st month I leave you with an excerpt from his Gray Planet Chronicles:The curious thing is that many of the passengers of the Gray Planet have all been transported… Read More
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A thousand days to regain freedom. The dark and often satirical journey of life in prison for both the inmate and the loved ones left behind. Life in jail is revealed via excerpts from phone conversations and letters. Justice and punishment are explored and questioned.
2010-06-28 16:14
We have run out of phone minutes and I feel slightly guilty because it is kind of a relief. I don't feel compelled to stay home and to wait for a call that always begins with, "You hav… Read More
2010-06-27 16:53
Sunday - a day to pray. I will go and join my small congregation that welcomes all in the spirit of non-denomination, sexual preferences and the like. There will be more trays of… Read More
2010-06-26 16:31
It is an insanely gorgeous day on the coast. One of those rare times when the sun is blazing and the wind has not yet picked up. I should be smiling. I should be happy.&nbs&hell…Read More
2010-06-25 17:47
All around me is great beauty. The Pacific ocean entertains me from nearly every window. Whales are frequent visitors and loll around with their pec fins breaking the surface, wh… Read More
2010-06-24 15:27
His writing are peppered in gray. Everything is either gray concrete or steel. The grayness is draining him faster than the endless routine and meaninglessness. Ironically, here… Read More
2010-06-23 14:48
17 pages updating his stay at Club Fed are crammed into my post box this morning. The 1st two pages are carefully printed and I can read them with out getting out my fat neon yellow hi… Read More
2010-06-22 15:10
He is told his release date. It is further out than what we had calculated. August 30, 2010. Longer than a thousand days. Much longer.We have used up all but a few precious phone… Read More
2010-06-21 15:03
I get my first letter from him. It is 46 pages long. The first page is to me. The next 45 pages are a scribblish mess called the Gray Planet Chronicles. I can usually… Read More
2010-06-20 15:06
Another 1st. Fathers Day in a Federal Penitentiary. He has 6 children and one darling grandchild. He was the real deal as a Dad. When all the other fathers were busy golfin… Read More
2010-06-19 16:34
Eleven days left in the month. In our eagerness to stay connected via prepaid phone calls we have nearly maxed out the monthly allowance of call minutes. There are so few minutes left… Read More
2010-06-18 14:30
When to beings are in love and you confine one; it is like a two for one deal. You are both effectively imprisoned. The only difference is one is sequestered inside the man… Read More
2010-06-17 16:27
I wrote my first piece of erotica today. Body parts cleverly disguised as flower parts........he will get it. We can communicate completely in subtext. What I can write and… Read More
2010-06-16 15:13
When the whole debacle went down in 2009 and his so called boss was being investigated he was so sure he had no involvement that he hadn't taken one step to protect himself. By the tim… Read More
2010-06-15 16:12
Doubt may take a bite out of love, but I have discovered it has a best friend called, GUILT. This time mine and what is my sentence? In the back of my brain I see a judge sitting… Read More
2010-06-14 15:37
There was no Day 12.Well there was technically - I just took it off my books. It was a day of DOUBT. It was a day I didn't want to play in the universe. I sat on my chaise and wrote a lon… Read More
2010-06-13 17:21
He began his new job today. He washes pots and pans in the kitchen from 7am until 2pm five days a week. He is not sure what it pays. We have heard everything from $17.00 a month to 2 doll… Read More
2010-06-12 15:13
The phone rings as I am rinsing a handful of plump organic blueberries to go with my hemp and flax seed granola. I glance at the caller ID and it blinks "unknown caller." Immediately I rea… Read More
2010-06-11 15:54
We had decided that the phone call today would be around dinner time. At 5 o'clock my girlfriends show up spontaneously to scoop me up and take me to see, "SEX IN THE CITY" which was playin… Read More
2010-06-10 16:03
He was watching a basketball game. When it was over and he went to call me; the phones had been turned off. We learn something new. Calls can only be made up until a certain time - shut o… Read More
2010-06-09 16:09
We had decided that to would be best to have our daily phone call in the early evenings. It gave me something to look forward to all day long and plus I could tell him about that day rather… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The fellow passengers as he calls them have discovered he is a song writer and beg him to write love letters to their wives. In return for writing them he is paid in paper and Bic pens… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
So today I drive a half a dozen towns down the coast so I can privately send a small amount of money to my soul mate. With his earning power currently at 17 cents per hour, he can hard… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Latest thing: E-mail......well sorta...He is now able to send e-mails to me for a nickle a letter. They go through a special website that I can sign on to. I write him. Someone r… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
July 4th weekend. My biggest decision is which beach bonfire and BBQ to go to. We are still incommunicado - apparently the phone minutes don't commence again until around the 7th. &hell…Read More
