
Truth Remains the First Casualty in the War on Drugs
| #031 | EXPRESSION > lyric > | 28 lines | My focus as a counselor is to unpack the sociopolitical conditions behind many of our...

Leading with Laughter
| #030 | EXPRESSION > humor > Indian humor |180 words | File this one under: Things NOT to say to American Indian coworkers. Images:...

What Prison Is Like
| #026 | EXPRESSION > war stories | 662 words | The first two years of prison were the most difficult for me. The next day it suddenly...


13 Practical Things Counseling Students Learn Extracuricularly
| #025 | EXPRESSION > humor | 301 words | Some of the best lessons a counseling student learns is not in any syllabus. Humbling stuff to...


Putting Mother Nature to Rest
| #024 | EXPRESSION > war stories > humor | 503 words | Doing time involves a lot of adjusting. Not only for the prisoners and their...

Seasons Turning
| #022 | EXPRESSION > lyric > holiday | 39 lines | As each year draws to a close and the airways fill with Christmas music, it may be...


Befriending Pain In a Most Unlikely Place
| #017 | EXPRESSION > war stories > | 1,106 words | Is pain necessarily a bad thing? Do you regard pain as some foe to be avoided or...


When Innocence Was All I Had
| #012 | EXPRESSION > war stories | 393 words | "Whatever doesn't kill me makes me stronger," is a common prisoner motif. Once tested,...