Change is good.

It seems impossible to go anywhere or do anything today without seeing or hearing about immigration. Most people I've spoken to about it say they are "sick of having to talk about it." Ok. You're allowed to feel mentally exhausted by the constant barrage of information coming at you. But... We need  to keep talking about it. Not arguing, but talking. Like adults. Whether you agree or disagree is your opinion, and you're entitled to it. So am I. I can understand why some are not in favor of open borders - with all the hate and violence being spread around the world, we as a nation want to be safe. I get that. I want to be safe, too. Think about this, however... it is human nature to migrate. People have moved from place to place forever. Some make it an annual habit; traveling at regular intervals with the seasons to survive. Others find a nice spot and stay a while. Some travel great distances, across continents and oceans. Some just move their fa

(fair warning - I may drop a couple f-bombs) I should know better than to read the comment section on Facebook. Today, kids across our nation have taken time from their regularly scheduled classes to walk out in protest to our current gun control situation. Simultaneously, they used that time to honor victims of school shootings not only in Parkland, Florida one month ago, but each and every shooting death that could have been prevented. But, I'm not here to argue about gun control today. I could probably write a book about how I feel on that subject. I happened to catch a live feed on Facebook from a Roanoke news station, and at the bottom of the screen were a slew of little, angry face emojis. You know, those red and yellow dot frowny-faces with the furrowed eyebrows you click when something makes you upset? Yeah... those. The video is of a walkout at a nearby middle school, where students are peacefully protesting. They walked outside and held hands for seventeen minut