Tag: Island

  • Jewish geese

    If I say, “Jewish goose” you immediately picture a rather anti-Semitic image. Furry hat? Big nose? Briefcase? Check. Maybe your goose has a bag of money. Shame on you, and me, too. It’s too bad, when we think of a Jewish Goose we don’t see it volunteering at the soup kitchen. You didn’t even see…

  • The 85 year-old little boy in prison

    “What were your parents like?” I ask Doc. Asking an 85-year-old man about his parents starts your brain doing math. They’ve have been born over 105 years ago… “My mom, and I know everybody says this, but my mom really was the hardest-working, sweetest woman that ever walked God’s Earth. Raised four boys without a…

  • “Keep pushing to see what happens”

    Sometimes the prison walls and barbed wire fences squeeze you a little tighter than you can bear — or it feels that way. There are days when call after call goes to voicemail directly because friends assume calls from “Washington DC” are spam (Store 202-499-3650 as ‘BOP Prison Call’ so you know if a friend…