I lost myself somewhere along the way, in this journey of life. I dont know exactly when, or where. It’s been a long, lonely road. Filled with addiction, incarceration, unhealthy relationships, crime, and chaos. I’ve hurt a lot of people, broken a lot of promises. And on this […]
Hello, my name is Dick Oppen. I am 47 years young living life on lifes terms. My body is in prison for some past mistakes but my mind is free. Like the men in uniform say, I Think it was the marine corps…. “Improvise, Adapt and Overcome”! […]
This next article is a metaphor. I wrote this a few months ago while watching a documentary on ktbs channel about these people who took a trip to antartica and the dude used that saying. So in my mind, I came up with a different kind of meaning […]
The verdict, a jury of 11 white people and one black woman who are supposed to be my peers, but was truly of people who couldn’t understand where I came from, just like their life was foreign to me. These people held judgement over me, eventhough most were […]
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