The picture above is of me at 47 in Japan, in the nanosecond of a major turning point. Nearly cost me my life, but I certainly learned a lot....An investigative reporter (with a Pulitzer'nomination, rare for an independent), a medical writer (founded a cooperative medical writing company with clients on three continents), and teacher (taught in high school and college and was an early coordinator in the un-schooling movement).on this channel under my own name, I'm writing an unauthorized history of Minds.
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@authorpendragon, I've been mindsblogging the news since 2016 and blogpost a bit.
Politically, I've been an activist since the early 1960s, because "inactive citizen" is an oxymoron. With courageous, adventurous children grown and out changing the world, having just helped raise a grandson, my husband aka best friend and I founded a small community in an improbable oasis that we're working to save in the midst of a metro area. Here the guy I love creates anything that I can imagine, and I grow things and write...
Channel Policy: Doxxers and spammers -- including thread hijackers endlessly bleating about unrelated pet projects or hatreds -- are at minimum boring. Bug out. All others: thank you for being here. Documented disagreement is terrific. So are discoveries. So is laughter....
Some Of My Blogposts On The Subject Of This Site
BILL OTTMAN'S MINDS, LEADING THE CHARGE AGAINST THE GLOBALS
(a series on Minds' creation, putting it in the context of the enormous forces that it's deftly combating)
https://www.minds.com/blog/view/833671268092485632
DRAGON'S INTERACTIVE TREASURE TROVE OF RESOURCES FOR LEARNING AND USING
MINDS.COM (constantly updated, Bản Dịch Tiếng Việt)
https://www.minds.com/blog/view/817408411232890880
CULTURE SHOCK: FROM FACEBOOK TO MINDS
https://www.minds.com/blog/view/784326485723848705
HEY FOLKS! HOW TO BE A USEFUL USER ON MINDS (updated and with Vietnamese translation)
https://www.minds.com/blog/view/860512232711233536
THE BEST PLACES TO MAKE SUGGESTIONS, ASK QUESTIONS -- AND GET ANSWERS -- ABOUT MINDS:
https://www.minds.com/blog/view/791632999973027840