In the first few months of 2019, had intended to post a nice “Year in Review,” chronicling how I spent 2018 and what it brought to me. For whatever reason, that review never came. Perhaps I was just too busy, or melancholy, treading the brambly path in the woods known…

On January 1st, 2018, I turned twenty years old as the year turned itself into a new one. My whole life, this overlap between the beginning of my life and the beginning of the year has served as a catalyst for my progress and development as a young human being.…