“I hate my hair!” Who hasn’t heard a woman utter this grievance at one time or another? In prison, it’s a universal complaint, a woeful…
Posts published by “Suza Lambert Bowser”
Revenge is an airborne disease in prison, one that seeps beneath the skin and pervades the atmosphere like a deadly fog. An inmate’s honor, once…
In the bad ol' days, when this place was a mental institution, the 15’ by 15’ outdoor space on each wing was called the “Smoke…
We can't see the city of Decatur from inside this prison, but at 9:30pm, we hear the city's sirens wailing in the distance, alarms that signal the worst disasters: floods, fires, plagues of locusts, nuclear attacks, and, of course, tornadoes.
Am I wild? Am I a free spirit — a woman who runs with wolves? Or, is it all merely a metaphor, something that can…
They left to see Macbeth — not in thunder, lightning, or rain, but… snow! A light blizzard was blowing on the Northern California mountain passes…
My grandmother loved language; she loved words and, having been blessed with a classic education that included Latin and Greek as well as French, she…