What About Me?

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I’ve worked as a sports, wedding and school photographer, but my interests were in nature and underwater photography and videography. I left the field when, after purchasing all my 35mm, Medium Format, Underwater and Darkroom equipment, the field went digital. I continue with photography only as a hobby secondary to my writing. Paranormal image analysis is something new and I started experimenting with in 2019 after becoming a believer when I accidentally found Kent Burris’ “Ghosts of Carmel Maine” YouTube channel.

I went back to school after giving up on a B.S. in Marine Biology (I couldn’t get through the calculus requirements) and progressed through my A.A. Degree in Liberal Arts and Sports Coaching (certificate), to my B.A. in a double major of Creative Writing and English Education, through all but the final student teaching requirements of a Single Subject Credential Program in High School English when I was recruited to a Master’s of Fine Art Theater Arts: Dramatic Writing program. After a disastrous first year in the new program (the program was almost immediately discontinued due to professor indiscretions), I transferred to an Interdisclipinary Studies M.A. program in Film and Electronic Arts and English. The subtitle of my M.A. is listed as “Digital Rhetoric and Memetic Theory.” My thesis was on Electracy, Intentism and Memetics.

I have published several conference papers and have had my photographs published in USA Today, Recreational Figure Skating Magazine and a book about police vehicles. I had been pursuing a career as a screenwriter with a Certificate in Screenwriting from UCLA-Extension, but gave that up when I realized the best movies were not from speculative screenplays, but short stories and novels and, now, comic books. I am currently outlining a paranormally-themed novel. I am often cited for my writing on the opiate crisis and the ensuing hysteria that has hurt many chronic pain patients.

My life experience has been diverse prior to returning to finish my educational path. I’ve worked with dolphins on trying to understand how they use language at the University of Hawaii. I’ve been an ambulance driver/EMT, a respiratory therapist, a police dispatcher, a scuba diver for a large aquarium, as well as a freelance writer and photographer. I’ve even had a few, small gigs as an actress after studying at conservatory at Chapman University and the H.B. Studios in New York City. 

I’m from coastal Connecticut, but I’ve lived in the Los Angeles area from 1979 to today. I currently live in the city of Long Beach, home to the haunted Queen Mary. I’m married to my high school sweetheart and count three cats and two golden retrievers as my “fur babies.”