Weâre excited to offer the third in Eric Burnhamâs five-part series on "The Four Agreements," by bestselling author Don Miguel Ruiz. In the book, Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec...
It took several agonizing months of listening to cellmate's stories before I realized that my innocence didn't matter. At fifty-one, I'd had a pretty full life. So, what really matters? This 17-year-old African American boy, arrested in front of school merely because...
My brother lives in an old farm house in Ohio with this great front yard of plush green grass that in the heart of the season is carpeted with the most beautiful and brightest yellow dandelions youâve ever seen. I remember when my son was about 5 and he commented,...
Weâre excited to offer the second in Eric Burnhamâs five-part series based on "The Four Agreements," by bestselling author Don Miguel Ruiz. In the book, Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient...
Do murderers cry? No one has ever asked me. I became one twenty years ago through denial. Sixteen might seem too young to have demons, but it isn't, and when I turned my back on them, they pounced on me. I hadn't cried for years before I became a murderer, but I did...
We're excited to offer the first of Eric Burnham's five-part series based on "The Four Agreements," by bestselling author Don Miguel Ruiz. In the book, Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient...
Pinellas County Floridaâs Sheriff Bob Gualtieriâs complicity in creating a racial divide leading to constant strife, stress and physical fights among the prisoners at the county jail facility under his charge actually costs the taxpayers untold thousands of dollars....
Shake down Go ahead and take it from me Shake down In the middle of the night Shake down Iâm sleeping here canât you see Shake down itâs not alriiiiiight⌠With me Although this sounds like a parody from weird Al Yankovic of a famous Tom Petty song, it really...
"How am I racist? Iâm Black!â Racism is something I never gave much thought to for most of my life, I just didnât ascribe to the unconscious practice even before I began waking up. My opening quandary is an actual, honest-to-God exchange between an inmate and a...
The most remarkable part of being locked up is not the lack of remorse and compassion from these prisoners, but the level of humanness of these so called hardened criminals. A man came to me the other day because, he said, I was a father and he didnât know what to do...