I take your hand, with so much love And lead you out onto the floor There is no band, no music playing But we dance to the beat of our love. Sometimes I have to pretend nobody is watching Other times the rest of the room dissapears. We […]
She beats with courage and fearlessness. She laughs long and smiles deep. My heart is out there in the free world. She knows right from wrong. She wonders about beautiful things. My heart is always Growing. She is open to lifes lessons. She is always getting better. My […]
You showed me what you couldnt say, I didnt miss it. I just smiled. I know because you told me, With out a word. My heart bounced around. There is no mistake, no coincidence. I can read the unspoken word. You are kind. Thank You. Todd Bass DOC […]
When I got sentenced to 18 years in prison, I had a facebook page friend list over 5 hundred. I would sell between 35 and 85 tickets to friends and family to my amature cage fights. In the last three years of incarseration 9 people have come to […]
So my daughter is a runaway. It is about the most helpless feeling a father could have in prison. I cant help her. She is, step for step, re-living my childhood. I knew early in grade school I was gona have problems. I didnt learn the same way […]
I need love. It is a basic human function that is often neglected or even ignored in the free world. It is further compounded by a prison term. In my setting, my living conditions……there is no love. You can be suffocated by respect, but its often ego or […]
Today my Celly found out his mom died. My celly is doing 21 years for killing the man who raped his sister. His cousins who went with him, all turned states evidence against him in exchange for a lesser sentence. They have all since went home. He has […]
Today Im alive. Today I woke up. Today I find myself on “The Right Side of The Grass”. I dont know what the day will bring. Trials, tests or maby even tradgity. I know I will triumph. My life has purpous, even if its outlines are still faded. […]
I have decided to undertake the over whelming task of finding love from Prison. The task is not an easy one to say the least and I am overwhelmed. For starters, the majority of us saw our friends, girl friends or wives, and Even family evaporate upon the […]
I am fighting a battle with both my incarceration and the American Media for the duty of raising my child. How can I win? Phone calls with in DOC are by law required to be comparativly priced and not grossly over Inflated. Out of state calls are over […]
So this is just a test of my ability to articulate whats on my mind to the blogosphear. This is only a test…………. I am surounded by negativity. My day was filled with numorous tests of my ability to navagate the emotional land mines set forth by strangers, […]
My name is Todd Bass and this is my introduction to the blogosphere. Before I begin……. A HUGE SHOUT OUT TO STONE CITY BLOG AND THE WOMAN WHO MAKES IT POSSIBLE…YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. Now, where do I begin? I have seen so much in my 33 […]
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