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.
We’re glad to see the TUD Board continue the work of their predecessors in pursuing the purchase of local water rights and assets from PG&E given that utilities interest in selling them. If the TUD does not buy them there is a high probability that someone else will step in and take away our absolute control of a critical water source. CSERC, in a continuing effort to limit economic growth, is wrong in trying to muddy the waters by claiming that the current agreement will survive intact.
“The biggest mistake” according to linguistics professor Deborah Tannen, “is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation – or a relationship.”
Author Jessamyn West believed that “It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.”
Former Reagan speech writer Peggy Noonan calls the current trend of social media outlets to ban those with whom they disagree or, don’t like their speech, “…like drug dealers who condemn their clients for becoming addicted to the fentanyl they sell.”
