In just a few short weeks we will start a new decade. This of course has everyone looking back on the previous decade, the 2000s. 10 years ago I was 15, a sophomore in high school. Now I’m 25, a college graduate, married, and I have a beard. I could easily write about the events in my life over the past 10 years, but that’s a pretty straightforward story. I could write about the many events of the past 10 years; 9/11, two new wars, Katrina, 4/16/2007, eight years of the worst president this country’s ever seen, the splintering of America along any number of lines (political, religious, racial, social, economic) and the general loss of civility, and any other number of fascinating moments of the past decade. Continue reading →