RouletteWeekend

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  • This Broken System is Breaking My Heart

    I haven’t talked to Michael, Joe’s brother in a couple weeks. He’s in prison, too. I’m sure I’ve mentioned him before. He finally called me yesterday and told me that he’s in the hole and has been there for the last two weeks almost because he was jumped by a gang and then re-assigned to Read more

  • Happy 4th of July

    I had this long semi-heartbreaking blog written for today, but as I went to schedule it to post, I realized that everybody is off work today in the United States, or at least most of us are, and those of us who are not, are too busy thinking about getting off later to see the Read more

  • No Time to Kill for Love

    Happy Monday, everyone! I hope you all had a good weekend. I did. It was nice and relaxing and full of procrastination that I will likely hate myself for today. I did get a lot of writing done. And I got a lot of research on where to sell my writing done, which is really Read more

  • I Will Take Part of the Blame

    A friend who works in the system advised me that maybe Mel’s story should wait until after he goes to court, just so he doesn’t accidentally incriminate himself with his honesty. So, because it makes perfect sense, we are going to wait until after July 25th to post Mel’s blog from his perspective. Today I Read more

  • No Perfect Parent’s (Part 2)

    I was at the court house bright and early the next day. I got a call around 8am that Mel had requested a lawyer so I had to get there a little early to fill out some paperwork. After I did that, I waited in the lobby until a young guy in a suit came Read more

  • No Perfect Parents (Part 1)

    I take great pride in my parenting. I just published a little lighthearted encouraging book about parenting called It’s Going to be OK. But life rarely allows us to be on our cloud for long before it smacks the shit out of us and lands us back on the solid ground of reality. I was traveling Read more