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L. Robert Veeder Here’s an unusual confession. I have a curiously deep love of going to the grocery store. Before Kara can even mutter...

Tellin’ The Biggest Lie L. Robert Veeder I first met Tony when I was working as a welder at Precision walls. That was truly one of the...

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It’s eight o’clock in the morning and I am sitting at the desk in my office. I’m not at work officially yet, won’t be for another hour or...

I first encountered meditation when I was around eleven or twelve years old.  I didn’t know what it was, but I recognized it as something...

On November 1st, 2003 I was involved in a drinking and driving accident. I had drunkenly drove a white, Econoline, work van into a...

I was in the parking lot getting ready to go, pulling on my gloves, adjusting my saddlebags. A grizzled local, a western New Yorker,...

*Warning* I decided to just post the entire thing. It’s a lot longer but has a better flow. Hope you enjoy! Okay, boys and girls. I’m...

Okay, boys and girls. I’m armed with a brand new Bic Round Stic, medium point ink pen, a Tops 3M legal pad (which advertises itself as...

Dissociation. Some words just have a nice sound. Dissociation is one of those words for me. I just like the way it sounds. I left the...

You would think that you wouldn’t be able to sleep the night before an event like this. I mean, the rest of your life is being determined...

***This was one of the first things I ever wrote that received any attention. I think I had been locked up about two or three years when...

I’m not sure why it worked like this. I expected to stay in processing, like my friends, for months. It may have been the media attention...

The next day during breakfast a guard came to me and passed me a slip of paper, some sort of pass. He said, ”After breakfast you need to...

We weren’t escorted back from lunch. Eventually, they just opened the doors and we were free to roam back to our block. It felt like such...

Around 11:30 am or 12:00 we all lined up at the door for lunch. This was another good rule of thumb for prison; just follow the guy in...

*This is part of a longer piece that describes my first days in prison. More coming soon. 🙂 We are sitting at a stainless steel table....

We lost a tree this week. I would have told you a few weeks ago that it was at least one hundred and twenty five years old. Its grey...

Sometimes when I talk to my grandfather on the telephone about running he will listen patiently, and at the end I can hear him say a...