Thoughts on the death of Trayvon Martin

I have been thinking really hard about this topic for a while now. It started when I signed a petition on change.org to bring justice to the family of a slain 17 year old. Little did I know that I was taking part in a firestorm that has spread rapidly across the US over the last couple weeks. I am not an attorney, psychologist or specialist of any kind but I am a human being with feelings and emotions that I can use to put myself in other people's shoes so coming from my own perspective, here are my thoughts on the killing of Trayvon Martin.
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Tiger, Tiger - A Game of Utter Destruction

I stumbled across a book review of "Tiger, Tiger" on NPR.com initially thinking it was a fictional story about a pressing issue that people can't or won't address - child sexual abuse. I quickly discovered it is an actual memoir written by author Margaux Fragoso, describing in detail from her perspective as a child the sexual abuse she endured starting at age 7 with a man who was 51 years old.
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Has reading become a past time?

We have numerous books in our house-- you know, those things that contain letters, words, stories, imagination, adventure? They sit on our looming bookshelf, lonely and dusty, peering at us as we are consumed by our nightly shows on the computer. With the lights off and the neon glow of the screen, our books are easily forgotten about. Even with our normal day-to-day, they are forgotten about. With the ease of wifi, computers and pretty much all technology, books have become displaced; put away in the dusty attics, left alone under beds, trashed and given to Goodwill. The world has seen the Amazon Kindle, no matter that it could potentially put printers out of business. Don't your eyes hurt from looking at that screen for so long?? And what happens when your battery dies? Your book is gone and you are left screaming with your hands to the heavens because you were at that one spot of the story where she....  With websites like Spark Notes, you don't even need to buy that book from the syllabus! Just read the notes online. Not only that, when was the last time someone genuinely encouraged you to read a book, and you actually read it?

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Max Train Mayhem

The gas prices are ridiculous. It just so happens that as soon as I transferred back to Hillsboro for work, the gas prices started creeping higher and higher. I believe the highest price is just over $4 per gallon and supposedly will get higher once summer hits. My car gets great gas mileage but driving 45 minutes both ways, in stop and go traffic does my gas tank no justice.

Let's not forget about the calluses I get on my hands from gripping the steering wheel so tight, while I curse and glare at the idiots on the road. I am a fierce driver and I get road rage somewhat easily. I've tried to curb this rage by playing calming music, taking deep breaths, opening my sun roof but it usually doesn't last long.
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Thinking, thinking, thought.

You know how easy it is to obsess over certain thoughts? How they can easily inundate your mind, take away your focus, control your behavior, cause you enough emotional distress that you could punch a stranger. Sometimes you don't even know how these thoughts get stuck in your head, reeling through your cranium like a broken record, over and over and over and over again. Once they are there, you can't get rid of them, like when you wake up with a Britney Spears song stuck in your head and you wanna scream "FML!". Or when everything you see, taste, hear reminds you of that single thought.
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Spring has sprung....... Then the rain came.

Andrew works at Roosevelt High School and it is currently his "spring break". The reason I put it in parenthesis is because in Oregon, it never feels like spring when it should. Spring and "springtime" refer broadly to ideas of rebirth, renewal and regrowth, which is perfect for the birth of this blog and my new inspiration to create something fun and exciting. Also something that people will **hopefully** enjoy reading.
Today, Andrew asked to join me for lunch and of course I said yes because it is always exciting to go to lunch with your hubby, especially when it's his day off. He drove all the way to Hillsboro to pick me up at work then we went to Noodles & Company where we took part in corporate America and ate some corporate noodles (I could make a much better pasta dish at home).
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