My Adventures: Both Real & Imagined

To Ask or Not to Ask, Is That Really the Question? The news of what Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer did with Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act (SB1070) has slowly trickled into my life. I don’t ever watch the news, so hearing about this from the grapevine has been my only source of information. Until recently. A few months ago I found out it was unlawful for a police officer to ask an immigrant’s legal status in the state of California. My native Mexican friend was explaining how police officers have harassed him and a friend of his. I know that this particular police force has been known for being vicious. I have experienced being cited by them, and let’s just say it was the first time I felt afraid in this particular city. Any how, back to the point. He told me they asked a friend his status and was trying to tell me how this was a basic violation of his rights. I try to be a very understanding person, but I didn’t get how asking someone if they are breaking the law,...

This discussion came up between two of my friends and me. We where getting our morning coffee and passed a rather metro-male. My friend asked me why all the males of my generation seemed to act like the stereotype image of a gay. I told him it was the style. It was called metro-sexual. He pondered my response for a moment. Then he told me that wasn’t it. It was an attitude, a walk, a way they held themselves. He said they almost seemed weak. So the question came up, with all the cross gender styles and attitudes today, what makes a man and a women? I like male things. I like quite a few things that could be categorized as very male things. Does that make me less of a female? Am I putting off men because I am too manly? Or is there a delicate balance that allows us to remain feminine while enjoying some masculine qualities. Why as a woman, I judge men to a different standard than I hold myself to. No matter how I cut it, I like a manly man. I like the tough guy. I like the guy that ...

This last week I have been working on myself. It is good to take a few moments and reflect and see what you would have done better, or differently so that in the future you learn. I have made some mistakes. I have said and done things I shouldn’t have and I won’t be making that mistake again. I thought I would tell you what they are, so you can see another fragment of me. I over indulged myself again. Have you ever heard that saying “Too much of a good thing is never a good thing?” I realized that I am an impulsive person and I don’t think things through. I listened to one friend bad mouth another. “There is so much good in the worst of us. There is so much bad in the best of us that it ill behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us.” But it is not only that, it says a lot about someone that they would feel the need to do this. I discovered who my friends really where. It is funny that when you are feeling your worst, looking even more so, you can turn around and there is ...