To me Family is precious and more valuable then any riches I know of on this earth, Depending on how you were brought up and where you come from has a lot to do with the way you perceive family. (FAMILY) is something I thought I lacked due […]
Introductions are in order… Hey there, My name is Daniel. Of course I’m known more formally as Daniel J. Royston. I’m 42 years old, got arrested in 1997 and I’m currently tallying off days in the Ohio Dept. of Rehabilitation and Corrections behind the walls of the Marion […]
Tell me why should I be healed when I’ve hurt so many others? Being oblivious to the impact your life and your decisions have on the lives and the decisions of others, makes it easy to form a pathway of destructive thinking which leads to destructive behavior. I […]
I will have done 10 years by the time I come home. I have right at 23/24 months left, give or take a day or two. I really feel as though I owe my daughter AKA “Tha Princess” and my son AKA “Lil Man” the world! After doing […]
Are you in favor,of child labor,slavery for babies – Ye’,Ne’…Maybe – Unsure of the question you’re being asked – What?!,it seems stupid,foolish, even crass – I know,I know your answer is obvious – The point to be made,is that you do not really understand politics – See,when you […]
As of today you’re 12 and have never read a letter from the man who knew you best and loved you first. He knew the energy you possessed needed to be harnessed before any negative dope inducing labels could take hold. He knew that same energy was a […]
My prayers, my heart, and my soul, go out to all single mothers. Whether it just didn’t work out, lost the dad to addiction, or the judicial system. Whatever it may be. My Mom was a single mom. My kids are growing up with just a mom. Do […]
MOTHER’S DAY had always been a special time for my mom and and myself.Being her firstborn gave me a leg up on those four other pretenders to my birthright….. Every MOTHER’S DAY it was the priority of my day to be the first of my siblings to call […]
Since stamps cost $$ for the jpay, I am willing to offer my address for any of you that would like to write to me. My info is on the CONTACT page. My boys mother took my sons off my visit list , I am hurting I was […]
TODAY is Austin’s 10th Birthday. I tried to call but your # was disconnected. How nice. I really wanted to sing to our older son, but I am crushed to be duped again. I want the world to know that I do care about being a father, […]
Please tell our boys that their daddy has missed them & never stopped loving them. I’ll be saying HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Austin & I hope he liked my card that I sent to him. I won’t forget about Alex for his 8th Birthday next month. But I am […]
I love you, but I am sick of all of the arguments I let you stay with me for free & don’t even charge you rent Sometimes, you hard not to resent Other times I find myself softened by your large heart It’s like being on an out […]
As a kid my dad wasn’t really around for me,he was off doing his own thing & never cared to come look for me or even come to my highschool graduation-of 6 years of highschool. But I did get to meet my real dad & he was the […]
At the age of thirty-six, you might be surprised to learn this is my very first stab at a blog. In fact, I am not too sure how any of this works. I have now been incarcerated for going on thirteen years. I was arrested in Seattle Washington […]
“‘”””””””””””””””‘”””””””””””””””””‘* It’s many things on dryland thats apart in the (UNNESS), that’ll keep you and your love one safe with the rights to touching good money. The laws must be upheld at all times, not many will recive a pass upon any of them being steped on, but […]
As I look out my bars in to a sun lit sky, I can emagin the tears falling From my childs eyes. I close my eyes to stopthe pain And out of knowwere It starts to rain. I sit in my cell and contemplate What I can do […]
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 […]
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 […]
Has my heart going out to so many people, and not just those directly affected by the carnage, but to those who now have to live in fear because of what these people feel they are doing in order to make their point/s. Its no more than “Gang-Banging” […]
Today my Princess Takira , turned twenty-one , and I have sooooo many mixed emotions. It’s funny cause when she was born I didn’t even know about her until I went on the run , and she was almost two months old at that point. Her mother is […]
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 saw something the other day that just broke my heart. It was a young lady immodestly and seductively dressed and behaving provocatively all for what? To garner the attention of some chauvinistic boy. Showing cleavage down to her belly button as she is in essence telling the […]
Its funny how the memory can bring back–in vivid detail–sights, sounds, and smells that make them cherished and favored. I could feel the crisp bite of foggy air this morning as I walked down to grab some breakfast. The fall colors, the first frost, and the geese flying […]
Like I said earlier, I didn’t post parts of the speeches from the DNC because of political beliefs or agendas. I am not promoting any political cause, or trying to delve into the field of politics, of which I know absolutely nothing about. I watch the debates & […]
I was reading this Sports Illustrated from May of this year, right. In it, it had an article about some NBA players & their mothers. It was actually quite touching, it made me think of my own mother. My mother is such a wonderful person, she is the […]
Hello, how is it going? I hope that everbody is good & this message reaches you all in the best of spirit, heart, mind, body & soul. Today I would like to talk about family. I am blessed when it comes to family, for that I thank God […]
We can live a natural family life and feel all the natural feelings of love for our family. Being detached is not cultivating a cool, aloof, uncaring feeling. It doesn’t mean we walk away from our loved ones. It doesn’t mean we leave behind all the things we […]
Now , I mentioned before that the first night in the hole I knew I wouldn’t be able to get to the phone for a few days , but I had to get the word out that I was in there. The only address I know off top […]
WAKE UP! We have been asleep at the wheel for far too long. WAKE UP! While we have been asleep, life has steadily been passing us by. For too long we have been bystanders in this thing called life and not equitable active participants. WAKE UP! While we […]
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 […]
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