• Life,  Think,  Travel

    Going Back to K-Vegas

    A few months ago I was notified that one of the professors I was closest with from TSU was retiring, which of course means a mini reunion and a trip to Kirksville, Missouri. This place, where I spent a chunk of my formative years, is somewhere I very regularly joke about. I knew it as a place in the middle of nowhere fixed with a Walmart, Pancake City and a train bridge (it is exactly what it sounds like…a bridge that is suspended over train tracks where we would go and sit for fun). Once I graduated from Truman, I didn’t think I would miss it as much as I…

  • Life,  Think

    Little Bubby

    I have the privilege of hanging out with my little bubby all week, just me and him. Since I have him here, I thought what better way to intro Zach than him giving the basics about himself. ​​“I have dystonia. I have muscles in my body that is not working really well, and eyes that aren’t working really well, and a brain that isn’t working really well. My brain has a thing called agenesis corpus callosum. It means my brain isn’t functioning. I only have part of my brain. I have had a lot of friends die. It’s hard for me. I think about them a lot. But when I…