Marian Douglas, guest blogger

Welcome our first guest blogger, Marian Douglas.  She is a 30-year veteran in mass communication and communication as a social science with her original Bachelor of Arts from Pennsylvania State in Communication Studies.  She has worked as a journalist in both public & commercial broadcasting, including KUOM Radio at the U of Minnesota and a TV reporter & anchor on the U.S.-Mexico border in Laredo, Texas.  She's a former press secretary for U.S. Rep. Major Owens of Brooklyn, New York.  She's also a polyglot with most of the Romance languages as well as several Slavic tongues.