Chapter 14: SURPRISED BY JOY

Chapter 14: SURPRISED BY JOY

I think of this as the beginning. I was asleep, maybe dead all my life, before 2016. I was 40 years old. “Mom, I’m not sure I believe in God anymore,” my oldest son Noel explained on the phone. It was October 2015, and Noel had just turned 21. Trying...
Chapter 3: BAIL, SENTENCING, & PRISON INTAKE

Chapter 3: BAIL, SENTENCING, & PRISON INTAKE

A year passed after I was first arrested in 2010 before I was sentenced and sent to prison. During this year I served 3 months in county jail, was released on bail, and had many court hearings. I passed the year in a mental fog, in such a haze I was even unaware I was...