My interesting life: I'm not dead yet

I'm actually pretty open about my life as an inmate wife.  My husband still is my best friend and my daughter's hero. We married in 2003 after living together for 2 years. My husband went to prison in 2006 and we have been an inmate family since then.  We are ten years in and have 30 years to go but we always hope that he won't have to serve the whole thing.  What he did is really not important to this blog.  I'm not ashamed of it but that is his story and by rights he should be the one to talk about it. I am posting this as the wife of an inmate and in this post, so I'm going to go over the basics of how to support a family of an inmate. Now why would you want to know this?   Lets start with the statistics: The United States contains 4 percent of the prison population as well as 22% of the global prison population. According to study done in 2014, "...more than 2.7  million  children have a parent who is incarcerated in the United...

So what is interesting?  As a general answer, I would say everything.  There is so much to learn, think about, explore, reflect, and simply be in life that it hardly seems fair the short time we are on this earth in this existence to experience all that is interesting.  That is why my motto is " I'm not dead yet!"  I have learned to give "never" the finger in many ways but as with everyone I am a complex   coming to this way of thinking didn't happen overnight and I followed any interesting path to get here. I joke that it all started when I was being created.  I joke there was a panel of gods and goddesses for differing pantheons gathered to grant each new spirit a wish and from that wish, they decided which ones they favored.  While most newly developed spirits asked for things like love, happiness, peace, wisdom, wealth, power the tricksters sat there bored and half listening to what most said and perhaps choosing a few they wanted to mess with. W...