My First Ballot

There are those days that you envision years in the future, knowing that it will happen, yet it always feels so distant.

Well, yesterday, one of those moments arrived: my name, on an absentee ballot, telling me to mail in my vote.

I spent just a good five minutes staring at this piece of paper, trying to process the fact that I will have a vote on Super Tuesday this year (March 3rd), the date of California’s…