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Father’s Day 2019
AUTHOR’S NOTE: What follows are 2 posts-from-the-past, The first, was written by my Son, Anthony, just a couple of months after I entered prison in 2010. The second was written by me, 3 years later. Anthony spent a couple of … Continue reading →
Recycling An Opportunity
AUTHOR’s NOTE: This post originally appeared here in “The Oakdale Chronicles” on January 21, 2013. I was about midway through my incarceration at the Federal Correctional Institution at Oakdale, LA, and had joined a public speaking group many of you … Continue reading →
Don’t Touch the Stove (The ‘lost’ post)
By Tony Casson (AUTHOR’S NOTE: I found a draft of this post originally begun in November of 2012 by my beloved son, Anthony, from the chicken scratching I sent him. For some reason probably related to the fact he was … Continue reading →
Evil Is Seductive
(Author’s Note: What follows was originally posted in 5 parts here in The Oakdale Chronicles very early on during my incarceration. It is the story of my attempted suicide and the week that followed while I was kept in a … Continue reading →
Do you really want to reform our prisons?
The following is something I posted on Medium.com recently: No dialogue on prison reform is complete without a serious look at the profit incentives found in the privatization of many of this nation’s prisons, both federal and state. I will … Continue reading →
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Tag Archives: spiritual sincerity
December 1
TODAY IS… the perfect day to mean it. “Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I shall rescue you, and you will honor Me.” Psalm 50:15 NASB We should all turn to God for help, and many of us … Continue reading
February 26
TODAY IS… a good day to ask, “Am I being spiritually sincere?” “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past 70 years, was it … Continue reading
March 3
TODAY IS… the perfect day to work on a home worthy of God. “But who can really build Him a worthy home?” 2 Chronicles 2:6a NLT As we all know, God cannot be contained within any dwelling of any size. … Continue reading
February 26
TODAY IS… a good day to ask, “Am I being spiritually sincere?” “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past 70 years, was it … Continue reading
