Saturday, December 20, 2014   Today I spoke with Mason Weiss for the first time. Mason is a military attorney who has been supportive of my work for quite some time. He frequently posts to my Facebook page and I’m always grateful to receive private messages he sends about how my work inspires him. Through […]

Friday, December 19, 2014   As we close in on the end of 2014, I feeling the pressure to achieve the goals that I set out at the beginning of the year. The goal that concerns me is my running goal. I set a goal of running 2,400 miles before the end of this year. […]

Thursday, December 18, 2014   Today I got stuck in horrible traffic while I was on my way to speak at Camp Rockey, a juvenile prison in San Dimas California. I left my house before 6:00 am, but I stopped off to enjoy a cup of coffee with my younger sister, Christina in Anaheim. Christina […]

Wednesday, December 17, 2014   Today I spoke in an “alternative” school in Santa Ana, California. The young people had been removed from the traditional school system because of some bad decisions they made. I think all of the students were on probation of some sort, and several had already been confined in a juvenile […]

Tuesday, December 16, 2014   Today I made a commitment to spend my birthday inside the Washington State Prison System. I’ll travel to the state prison in Aberdeen to attend a graduation ceremony for the first graduating class of the Straight-A Guide. The adult offenders wrote some really encouraging words about how the program influenced […]

Monday, December 15, 2014   Today I launched the beta version of PrisonProfessor.com. I call it a beta version because I’m not entirely convinced that I am going to stick with the design. I laid out the design myself and of course I wrote all of the content for the site. I received some help […]

Sunday, December 14, 2014   This morning I woke up exhausted. The quick trip to Orlando this past week really drained me. I woke before ready to go run. After lacing up my shoes, I changed my mind and returned to sleep for another two hours. Although my running has slowed down, I remain ahead […]

Saturday, December 13, 2014   Carole didn’t have to work today so we enjoyed the morning together. She was scheduled for an exercise class at 10:30, so I postponed my run until then. I worked from home, finishing up a grant request that I had to write for our foundation. The grant I’m applying for […]

Friday, December 12, 2014   What a long day. After only four hours sleep, I freshened up with a shower and then I packed so I’d be ready for my flight home. I went downstairs to meet Danny in the lobby. We secured a large table in the restaurant and prepared our presentations for the […]

Thursday, December 11, 2014   Today was our big event. After only a few hours sleep, I woke to go for a run around the hotel’s perimeter. When I saw that people were already getting into the hotel’s convention center, I realized that I would have to postpone my run. I needed to return to […]