rogue reporter

Not exactly wandering the valley, but I am wandering about and right now I am in Alabama for training at the Center for Domestic Preparedness, a center operated by Homeland Security.

I am in advanced Public Information Officer training for health care organizations. I work for Asante Health System in Medford, Oregon, and this is [...]

Yummy Cake Siren is calling me

I have gone three weeks without candy or sweets or pastries or dessert or anything thick and gooey and sweet and wonderful. Today, there it is, in the break room, a huge chunk of leftover Yummy Cake from an office party.

I sit at my desk, trying to type, [...]

On May 18, 1980, I saw the eruption.

Today is Volcano Day. 30 years ago today Mt. St. Helens exploded, causing death and destruction like we have never seen in the Pacific Northwest.

At the moment it happened I was on the Oregon side of the Columbia River at Prescott Beach County Park near the [...]

The hill below Golden, Oregon still shows the deep scars of sluicing from the bygone days of hydraulic gold mining in Oregon. A great portion of the hill was scoured off with pressurized water, the mud and rock sifted for flecks of gold. Millions of dollars worth of gold were mined here in from 1890-1920. [...]

The Los Angeles Times

Associative Press Report

Los Angeles– Pulitzer prize winning journalism may give credibility, but it doesn’t pay the bills. In a startling move designed to bring revenue and life back to the ailing Los Angeles Times, publisher Eddy Hartline announced today that the longtime guardian of news in southern California will lay off [...]

Here is a great video on how to stop the spread of colds and flu by sneezing in your sleeve! And all from kids on “School Tube” SchoolTube

Grants Pass spinners were out for World Wide Spin Outdoors Day

Old is new and low-tech is in these days, so it is no surprise that September 18 was World Wide Spin in Public Day (http://www.wwsipday.com/).

I first heard about it with an accidental hit on Google Alerts. The alert was for “World Wide Pandemic.” [...]