by Holly | Jun 6, 2024 | 2017, Life During
One day in February Marsha approached me in the dayroom. “Holly, I am wondering if you’d be willing to help with something. We are planning the discipline free banquet and don’t yet have a theme for this year. Even though you are not a member of the Positive Peer...
by Holly | May 29, 2024 | 2017, Life During
I never connected the dots between emotional and spiritual health. In fact, I’d rejected the idea of a connection years earlier. Sitting in the medical waiting room in prison I overheard, “Have you read this Christian book about depression? It claims there’s a...
by Holly | May 27, 2024 | 2016, Life During
July 2017, and the prison was on another lockdown. Everyone living in Tubman (including me) knew the reason – two women living in a cell across the hall from mine had been caught selling meth. Administration spent days tearing apart their room trying to find the drugs...
by Holly | May 8, 2024 | 2016, Life During
Trials “No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man.” I Corinthians 10:13 “Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.” I Peter 4:12 Pen Pals are still a thing in...
by Holly | Apr 26, 2024 | 2016, Life During
“I was kicked out of Anthony.” I turned in my chair to see who was speaking. It was a Monday afternoon in August 2016 and the school day was nearly over. I’d been reading a kite from the psych department. In the trial for my parental rights, I thought my psych...
by Holly | Apr 9, 2024 | 2016, Life During
Humility “in humility count others more significant than yourselves.” Philippians 2:3 “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” I Peter 5:5 Sitting at the desk in my cell, I finished another letter to my children. Suddenly, movement was called over the...
