Each year I like to wish all the mothers of the world a Happy Mother’s Day and to add something different to my previous wishes.
Category: Politics
MARCH MADNESS
by Wayne T. Dowdy For the last month, I thought about writing this blog, twisting my mustache as numerous ideas whirled around inside my head: making a minor correction suggested by a reader; praising women in honor of Women’s History Month; updating the halfway house issue; and my plans for StraightFromthePen.org and .net, including my…
SANTA, STARS, SEX & POLITICS by Wayne T. Dowdy
On December 23, 2015, I blogged about a “Plot to Stop Santa.” My publisher found a photo to post of Santa and a Militarized-Sled Santa used to fight terrorists who stood in his way. Well, now there may be other reasons to deter Jolly Ole Saint Nick from doing what he does best: deliver gifts…
Mothers & Memorial Days by Wayne T. Dowdy
This blog pays tribute to those who made life possible for us today with God’s love and power.
POLITICS, DEATH AND LOVE
by Wayne T. Dowdy November 26, 2016: Cuban immigrants party in the streets of Little Havana in Miami, Florida; November 9, 2016: Protests in America over the election of President-elect, Donald Trump; November 8, 2016: Television Privileges Restored & Gone Again. CELEBRATING THE DEATH OF A DICTATOR: On November 25, 2016, at 10:30 PM, EST,…
POLITICS & PRISONS
Half of the cellblocks at this institution cannot watch television coverage of the elections because some prisoners had the nerve to violate the rules by having contraband in their cells. Imagine that, prisoners who break the rules!
REENTERING REALITY
by Wayne T. Dowdy The clock ticks away the seconds, minutes, hours, and months until my release. The realities I must face flood the senses as my day comes closer. The last three decades of my life will have been spent inside federal prisons. For most of this sentence, getting out seemed so far into…
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…