In my Valley Views intro, I describe the Willamette Valley as “bountiful”.  Reason being is that there are many farms located here. But there’s a problem here.  Corvallis is not all it pretends to be or thinks it is.  The so-called “Progressives” here in Corvallis embrace ...

Join Host Dale Holiday as she shares elements of the futuristic world where “everyone is equal” as portrayed in Kurt Vonnegut’s short story, “Harrison Bergeron”.  She examines this fictional society and suggests that the same dynamics create the group think mentality in tod...

Join Host Dale Holiday in Part 2 of Child Free By Choice.  She presents nine of the most frequent, predictable and baseless arguments that CBCers hear, followed by an informed comeback that you may consider repeating if you’re weary of these tiresome accusations.  In additi...

Join Host Dale Holiday as she shares her observations about being a woman who is child free by choice (CBC).  In Part 1 of Child Free by Choice she ponders why people make the choice to have children and reviews the various pressures that CBCers encounter from individuals a...

Al is a man that I’ve had a “nodding / how ya doing” acquaintance with for a couple of years because we work out at the same gym.  But in the past year we found ourselves conversing more about national and world politics, race relations in the US, food, exercise and other a...

Being a Campaign Manager for my husband’s bid for Benton County Commissioner this past year put me in a unique position to hear people’s emotions, perceptions and misconceptions around the act of voting.  Voting is an activity that I view as not only a civil right, but a sa...

Join me for the final part of this 3-part conversation with my husband, Max Mania.  Max recently ran as a candidate for Benton County Commissioner – unaffiliated with any party, and I operated as his Campaign Manager.  Unfortunately, he lost his bid.  I operated as his Camp...

Join me for this second part of a 3-part conversation with my husband, Max Mania.  Max recently ran as a candidate for Benton County Commissioner – unaffiliated with any party, and I operated as his Campaign Manager.  Unfortunately, he lost his bid.  I operated as his Campa...

Join me for a 3-part conversation with my husband, Max Mania.  Max recently ran as a candidate for Benton County Commissioner – unaffiliated with any party, and I operated as his Campaign Manager.  Unfortunately, he lost his bid.t.  I operated as his Campaign Manager.   In ...

Tune in to my conversation with Christy Wright, RN, BSN and former Certified Hospice Palliative Care Nurse as we talk about End of Life issues. According to a source that Christy shared with me, 90% of people surveyed say they think it’s very important to talk to their fami...