Hello and Happy New Year to everyone.  I hope this year brings some clarity to our terrifying world and some sense of inner peace.  It is up to each of us to work together to create that sense of peace.  It doesn't happen without effort.   Prison CONversation...

Christmas for us was wonderful.  My wife created new rituals for the holiday now that she is an empty nester.  Last night we had a late Christmas dinner with both of her sons.  It was very special.  Our financial problems were addressed by Christmas gifts for Kroger...

Tomorrow is the first official day of winter.  It is also the shortest amount of daylight in the year.  You might wonder what that has to do with Prison CONversation.  Well, going to prison is like being in a dark place where  night seems endless and the atmosphere is...

My wife and I are experiencing very directly what it is like to get out of prison.  A friend who spent the last 6 1/2 years in prison was released last week.  His plan to stay in a motel was sabotaged by authorities who called the hotel to say a sex offender was...

So many people that I interact with feel as though they are never good enough, pretty enough, thin enough, rich enough, or any of a thousand ways in which we are not good enough.  Prison CONversation advocates that we are all good enough.  Those of us who have...

Yesterday on the way home from a faith-based prison program, our car died 130 miles from home.  My wife called one of her kids and we ended up getting a ride home with him.  Many of us who struggle with addiction, sexual issues, and especially pedophilia have trouble...

Yesterday I received an email from a man in North Carolina struggling with the rules of our returning citizens. His story stresses the importance of communicating so that we can highlight problems and construct solutions which benefit all of our returning citizens....

One of the traditions of this time of year in 12 step groups is a gratitude meeting. This is the time to focus on the good things in our lives. It is very common to focus on the negative. It is easy to complain and get down, but when we focus on the positives in our...

The bombing in Paris is simply horrific.  Brussels is virtually shut down.  We live at a time of fear for safety in every day normal activities.  We speak about people being radicalized. How do we look at people different from us?  Do we make assumptions based on...