What I Want My Words to Do

I like blogging, I like to blog because I feel like I have a lot to contribute to the world. I like having a voice. My voice may be small and very few may listen but someone, somewhere may listen and that is good enough. I think it is by small means that great changes can be made. I think that if just one person is able to feel better or do better in their life because of my blog then I have done what I have set out to do. I feel like I have a voice of reason.…

Arizona Immigration Law

The upcoming Arizona Immigration Law is severely flawed. It criminalizes to an extreme level those who have entered the country without wading through the mound of paper work and dealing with the obscenely long waiting period. What it doesn’t do is address the fundamental causes of undocumented workers. Currently the immigration system is set up to only “allow” a select few of individuals that are lucky enough to win the immigration lottery. Why is the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness criminal? It is the basis for which this country was founded; we of all people should be embracing individuals from…

Fairness in Life

It seems that we all want life to be fair. There is and always has been a great inequality in life. Often times it comes in the form of “have’s” and “have not’s”. We tend to see things in absolutes. A person is either all good or all bad. We fail to recognize that we ourselves are not all good or all bad. When we do something that is wrong we want the most lenient of treatment. When someone else does something that is wrong, we want to “throw the book at them” so to speak. This extremist view point…