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.
Camp Hope, with its array of services for the homeless, was a well-intended but unfortunate failure and ended in an ugly closure. Now the City and County are considering creating a permanent homeless encampment with those same services hoping that it will replace the thirty plus illegal encampments on public and private properties. We don’t pretend to know what the answer is to this national tragedy, if there even is one; but we are sure that when it comes to this proposal, “if you build it, they will come” as they say. And, like any government program, once enacted it will only expand which we cannot afford or, like Camp Hope, it will not end well.
