Hello! You can call me Malcolm.
I want to start off by giving you as clear of a picture of myself as I can. I’m hoping that information on my current life and my background will give you insight and context into where I am coming from as you read through my thoughts and ideas.
I am a 29 year old man, which puts me in roughly the oldest quarter of millennials. I currently live in the wonderful city of Madison, Wisconsin in the United States. I’m a pretty standard nerd, interested in comic books, video games, and science fiction novels. I have been married to an amazing woman named Sarah for the past seven years. We have two young children, Simon and Jane. Our oldest will be starting kindergarten in the very near future. I am a software engineer with a Master’s degree and my wife works in healthcare at one of the hospitals here in town. Together, we are fortunate enough to earn a combined salary that puts us in the top 5% of income earners in this country.
I was raised on a farm in the rural Midwest. My parents weren’t particularly political, at least not openly, but our household was religious and most of the role models I had in our community and at church were conservative. That meant I was, too, for most of my formative years. That started to shift as I hit 15 or 16 years old. I started questioning a lot of what I had believed without a second thought up until that point. By the time I turned 20, I was what I am today.
I am unequivocally, unapologetically, proverbially progressive.
I plan to go into why I think that’s the case in my next post because there are a lot of reasons I shouldn’t be, a handful of which are above. I’m not positive what I want this to become yet, or even necessarily that I want it to become anything. I’m not sure if I want it to be read by a million people, or just my mother. What I want now, today, is a place where I can put my beliefs down on paper and process the thoughts and reasoning behind them. I suppose it’s an avenue for me to vent and process frustration with the state of the country that I live in and love, and argue my case for the changes I would like to see happen in it.
The site is still under construction, but I’ll finish polishing it and start posting my beliefs and ideas regularly soon. Thanks for reading.
Proverbially Progressive 