On Tuesday, April 23, 2019, 3,128 people from 131 different countries became U.S. citizens at the Los Angeles Convention Center, and one of those people was my husband!  ​What an exciting, proud, and heart-warming day it was.

When a Trump-sized handful of France's billionaires can pledge nearly 1B Euros in a day to reconstruct Notre Dame, that certainly puts a lot of things into perspective.  When the news of Notre Dame being on fire hit me, I felt a few different emotions, some of which were conflicting.  First of all, it's not the first historic building to catch on fire and needed to be rebuilt.  However, there's a lot of history and it is quite emotional to watch a piece of history and culture burn.  It's also a place that I, like many, have had great memories of.  I was even one of many who dug up a couple old photos to share.  Still, what does it say about us when people can act so quickly to save an old building, while many either ignore or are completely unaware of the millions of people they could actually be helping?  Not only that, but what people choose to save and what they choose to let fall away shows us what's wrong with our society.