Fall is the season for change. Everyone knows that, and the metaphor is a tad overused. However, the leaves change, and the earth gets prepared to be covered in snow. School starts in late summer, early fall. You get the opportunity to start fresh and learn new things.  Fall for me since I graduated college ...

Trying to be still trying to be patient trying to have faith in a faithless system   Trying to have hope in a world that sees hope as a weakness   Trying to believe that people can care more about each other than how much money they make   Maybe that makes me an idealist ...

We have all heard about nature versus nurture. It’s a theory that’s been around forever. The truth of the matter is hard but true. We are all our own individual people. We know what we’re doing, and we make our own choices. Some of these decisions are harder than others, but we make them. We ...

RSU is decked out in red and green lights. Inflatables decorate our front lawn in Kansas. Mom’s Mickey Mouse village is set up in the living room. The Christmas tree is up, covered in ornaments for every year that we’ve been a family. My favorite year is 2004. It’s the year when my brother joined our ...