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.
Its interesting to watch the nations of the EU band together to enforce their borders by cracking down on illegal migrants and smugglers while our officials here find illegal border crossing so acceptable that the TSA accepts department of homeland security arrest warrants as identify papers for domestic flights.
Writer Joan Didion defined “character” as “the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life” and called it “the source from which self-respect springs.”
In 2017 Chris Coons, Delaware’s Democrat Senator, led a coalition of 32 Democrats declaring that they are “united in their determination” to maintain the filibuster. This week, he and 47 Democrats, including Dianne Feinstein who, along with Joe Biden vowed to sustain it just a few years ago, voted to destroy the filibuster. Twenty-nine GOP Senators also signed Mr. Coons’ 2017 letter. So, while only two Democrats still back the filibuster under Mr. Biden, more than half of the Republican caucus supported it as a guardrail on their own majority under Donald Trump.
