Erik DelBene

I didn’t go to church in jail to find God. I went because it was the only way to interact with guys from other blocks and pass off contraband. On this particular day, I had to get some pills to a guy in B block, and chapel was the safest way to do it. I …

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She was in her late 80s. I was rushing around, trying to make everything perfect for a church luncheon. You know the drill—centerpieces crooked, someone forgot forks, and I was sweating through my nice blouse pretending not to panic. She was sitting alone at a table in the corner, napkin in her lap, hands folded, …

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Why Do We Need To Protect Our Grasslands? Grazing land, also referred to as grasslands, serve as a cross-over ecosystem that contributes critical protein production for a global population, provides for rural economies, and at the same time influences our climate, eater and air quality, wildlife habitats and sequesters significant quantities of atomosphic carbon. In …

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I watched as the two students noticed I was walking toward them and both stealthily slid their math homework under their writing notebooks and pretended to be totally engaged in thinking of their next writing idea. I, of course, was not fooled. I came up behind them, crouched low and whispered, “I want to tell …

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