by Wayne T. Dowdy “Words pack a punch, whether written or spoken, words have the power to change or destroy lives. I choose my words carefully and hope the ones I select affect a positive change.” Teaching Cons New Tricks–Creative Writing & Q.A. Apprenticeship Program. (April 15, 2015) straightfromthepen.wordpress.com. In my March 8, 2016, blog…
Category: My Life Inside
AGAPE LOVE
Penitentiaries are not the typical place to learn about love; however, I attended Kairos in 2003-2004 while at the United States Penitentiary in Pollock, Louisiana. Kairos is a prison outreach program where people of different faiths come together to teach the central theme about the love Jesus Christ has for us. Kairos means in God’s…
PLOT TO STOP SANTA by Mr. D.
[2020 Update: The author no longer worries about the censorship he dealt with when his former publisher posted this blog. He now enjoys freedom and exercises his freedom of speech.] [The author uses his pseudonym due to institutional concerns when his publisher emails blogs into American prisons: one prison blocked their emails after sending “Zachariah…
RAIN, BLOGS, FROGS & POLITICS by Wayne T. Dowdy
Update: June 29, 2022: Many followers never read some of these blogs I wrote while serving my federal sentence. I paid Five cents per minute to type and read anything on Corrlinks.com, Fifteen cents per page to print so I could edit before emailing to my publisher to post. But getting my writings beyond the…
THE MAKING OF A MASTERPIECE: Unknown Innocence by Wayne T. Dowdy
02/21/2021, Update: I continue to be grateful to my former publisher, Midnight Express Books, for helping me put my books on the market while serving a 420-month federal prison sentence. On August 28, 2018, I walked outside into the free world for the first-time in thirty-years and ten-days, without having handcuffs and leg shackles on…
Talk About Under Pressure
Midnight Express Books released the paperback version of UNDER PRESSURE by Mr. D, in January 2013 before releasing the eBook a week later. A month afterwards, I let a prison guard read an excerpt from the eBook that someone had printed and mailed in to me. The excerpt came from a scene I wrote about…
SNAKE vs POLITICS
Reprint permission granted by the author. May 13, 2015 SNAKE VERSUS POLITICS by Wayne T. Dowdy Whether to put more emphasis on the topic of Politics or Snakes was my dilemma. Snakes won by a landslide; however, I will also write on Political Promises and Incarceration. To be specific, what changed my mind was a…
Vacation in Prison
I am on vacation today, a paid vacation, in prison; just one day, but one day needed to compose my thoughts and celebrate having lived to see the age of fifty-eight. I earn one-day per month but I don’t take too many at a time because of my position at work with others who rely…