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.
Way back in 2011, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo opined that “You are kidding yourself if you think you can be one of the highest-taxed states, have a reputation for being anti-business and have a rosy economic future.” For the sake of New York, we wish he’d meant it. And for the sake of California, we hope Gavin Newsome takes note of that fact.
While Bill De Blasio poses for a photo op while painting Black Lives Matter slogans on his city streets not far away more African-Americans are dying in his streets from gang violence "Don't those Black Lives Matter?"
Dispite the CDC's call for schools to reopen under their guidelines a step towards better public health, the Federation of American teachers is calling for public strikes if they deem conditions warrant. We ask "what about the needs of the students and their parents?" For many school lunches and breakfasts may be the best nutrition they get all day and with two working parents unable to go to work and ill equiped to home school the socioeconomic divide will widen rapidly.
Australian-American novelist Shirley Hazard once made the observation that “Some people do know more than others. That contributes to the impression that someone, somewhere knows the whole thing.”
