Since incarceration in February 2022, I’ve kept a daily journal – completing around one journal per month. Since then, I’ve sent my journals home to my husband, who keeps them safe for me. However, I’m able to backtrack in the following journal entries that will be posted as far back as March 2023. Please note that names of people mentioned will not be disclosed, for their privacy.
Journal Entry for 2022 (The Year I Was Incarcerated)
Positives and things I learned in 2022:
- My marriage stayed strong and full of love.
- I survived.
- I played the drums in our chapel.
- I read 37+ books.
- Attended more than 20 chapel services and classes.
- Received 4 certificates.
- Discovered that I can draw!
- Stood up for myself against threats.
- Tried foods I’ve never had before.
- Started learning German.
- My husband visited me!
- Began to really know God and form a relationship with Him.
- Learned Yoga, power walked, and played volleyball.
- Discovered I’m a good server in volleyball.
- Learned how to make a bed military style.
- Learned how to live with 85 other women in an open bay dorm.
- Got to know and become friends with women who committed crimes I used to be judgmental towards.
- Stayed even closer and deepened my friendship with my long-term friends outside of prison.
- Attended the weeklong Journey to the Heart chapel group.
- Received many hand me downs from people.
- Was accepted into the Horizon FCB Program!
- My husband visited our best friend in Canada
Books read in 2022:
- While We Were Watching Downton Abbey
- Finding Alaska
- The Girl Vanishes
- Requiem At St. Mary’s Refuge
- At Home In Mitford
- Outlander
- Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone
- Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets
- Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban
- From Prison To Praise
- God Will Carry You Though
- Phoebe’s Light
- Verity
- Finding Cinderella
- Layla
- Palm Beach Murders
- Unspeakable
- A Monster Calls
- A Prairie Christmas
- Dragonfly In Amber
- The Blessing
- A Skeleton In The Family
- The Skeleton Takes A Bow
- The Skeleton Haunts A House
- 50 Real American Ghost Stories
- A Clockwork Orange
- It Takes A Witch
- The Skeleton Paints A Picture
- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
- The Skeleton Stuffs A Stocking
- Christmas In Norway
- The Skeleton Makes A Friend
- The Dirt
- The Heroine Diaries, Nikki Sixx
- Tommyland, Tommy Lee
- Sweet, Bubi Heilman
