The Discourse

The neighborhood kids biked back and forth up and down our small street. Bounded by invincible lines-my driveway and the lamp post where the road curves back to the main street. Boundary lines probably drawn by their parents. Boundary lines dutifully followed. A brother and younger sister. They were practicing

My older brother started law school when he was 39. After studying computer programming. After giving everything up to take care of my dad while he had cancer. He’s lit up in a way I haven’t seen in years.  My younger brother started PA school when he was

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The Discourse is back!! And dang does it feel good to be writing to you. After nearly two months of wrestling with technology and some heavy internal topics-I'm back writing again, thanks to my therapist and The Discourse website has gotten a needed refresh on the back-end and

It’s my first night sleeping by myself in over three weeks. They say it takes 21 days to make or break a habit, and my newfound habit is Mat.

Growth feels increasingly relevant as the seasons change and the years pass on. At 23 years old, I feel so distant from my childhood form yet not far enough. Finishing college and entering adulthood has been a shift that I couldn’t have imagined. I abandoned a lifestyle I’d