The Diaries

Before the halfway house

• One year before -- A futon, old quilts and memories
• Eight months before -- Saturday Night -- hazy moon -- Hickman County line

During the halfway house

• Second and third days in -- 538 to go
• Two months in -- Swimming laps in the government cellpool
• Three months & two weeks in -- Spring comes to the halfway house & is confiscated within the hour
• Six months & three days in -- Two seconds in the life
• Six months & 17 days in -- In memorium and in preparation ...
• Eight months & 14 days in -- What doesn't kill us ...
• Nine months & 2 days in -- Touching the far shoreline and turning around
• Eleven months & 14 days in -- Good news, bad news, weird news, dream-world news
• One year & four days in -- Love conjures all
• One year & 18 days in -- Giving thanks, I lit three fires
• One year, 1 month & 11 days in -- A quick solstice greeting
• One year, 1 month & 19 days in -- I don't want anything to change
• One year, 2 months & 15 days in -- And if you should wonder ...
• One year, 3 months & 2 days in -- Happy Valentine's eve
• One year, 3 months & 23 days in -- Bad cowboy poetry
• One year, 3 months & 28 days in -- Meet Bob Koehler
• One year, 4 months & 6 days in -- Staying positive
• One year, 5 months & 10 days in -- How this all began
• One year, 5 months & 21 days in -- Time stands still ...
• One year, 5 months & 29 days in -- Two minutes left
• One year, 5 months & 30 days in -- The last day here

After the halfway house

• One day out -- Free at last
• One week out -- Testimony to the TN legislature for medical marijuana
• One month, three weeks and one day out -- Soft sounds of water falling
• Two months & 21 days out -- A morning prayer from your favorite felon
• Three months out -- Early morning on the farm
• Four months out -- Romancing my reunion
• Five months & 11 days out -- We hippies are STILL right
• Six months & 25 days out -- The day after Groundhog Day
• Seven months out -- Rescuing our vote in Tennessee
• Seven months & six days out -- A civic second, a Merry Christmas moment
• Eight months & 17 days out -- The fierce urgency of now
• Eight months & 21 days out -- A gray and sleety Thursday morning
• Eleven months & 8 days out -- One person can make a difference
• One year & 10 days out -- Thanks to you ...
• One year, three months and four days out -- What a pot grower grows when he can't grow pot