Lessons from Incarceration - My Newest Piece

The pandemic has inspired feelings of loneliness, dread, loss of purpose, and uncertainty. Those are feelings I’ve felt before and in this piece on Medium I share how I coped with them from jail.

Three months after the death of my mom, I was arrested for the accidental overdose of one of my best friends. Kicking heroin and grieving in jail, I was told I was going to do a decade or two in prison. That became my new reality for the next 21 months. Lessons abound.