Born a 10th generation Oregonian, (5 generations on each side) I have an enthusiasm for learning and teaching new things. After a ten year mini career in the dental field I moved on to research and embraced the social web. Though the internet is far too large for any one person to claim to be an expert, I can hold my own with the latest trends.
I enjoy researching and writing blogs. As the "Internet Program Director" for myMotherLode.com since 2008, I update the website and have a wide variety of interests. There is always something entertaining, educational or inspirational to share.
It was the advice of Mark Twain to “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
Now that President Biden has taken office with his self-proclaimed “most diverse cabinet in history,” we hope that that also means diversity of thought.
According to columnist Bill Vaughn, “People learn from their mistakes every day, and a lot of times its that what they learned the day before was wrong.”
Author David Satter notes that if Marxist-Leninism created a so-called “classless society” why were there special stores for government and Party officials? Not unlike the “Do as I say, not as I do” engineers of the state-wide lockdowns. And, we find it particularly interesting that the same Kamala Harris who “would not trust a vaccine developed under a Trump Administration” was recently one of the government poohbahs who was vaccinated within a week of its release.
