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You have entered Cosmic Scribbler. I'm a freelance writer and have covered issues such as digital technology, medicine including radiology and oncology, sex education, financial services technology, Web development, auditing, commercial real estate, banking, and legal issues.

I'm an assistant professor of communication at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. I've taught visual design, technical writing, Web design, and English literature and composition, in addition to literature and technical writing courses for ERAU's online campus.

I have a PhD in Texts and Technology and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Florida. The dissertation, titled Green Chairs, Fictional Phalluses, Infiltration, and Love on the Rocks: Medical Imaging Artifacts Blown Up, is a rhetorical study that explores the artifacts created by medical imaging technologies, using methodologies adapted from surrealists, semiologists, and visual artists - particularly Barthes and Brecht. Click here for a longer explanation, and click here to read the introduction and first chapter. It's really just about problem-solving.

Not long ago, I wrote a screenplay called Revelations in Plastic, which I would like to sell. If you or anyone you know has ties to the entertainment industry, contact me immediately. In the event that you start a chain of events leading to my screenplay being purchased for a large, non-refundable figure, I would be grateful.

My MA thesis is a novella entitled Foodworld, recently published and available for an exorbitant price on Amazon.com. The story addresses fate versus freewill, and how people use technology and religion in similar ways to insulate themselves. The underlying problem is an electricity shortage that correlates with the internal power struggles faced by the characters in their quest for meaning and fulfillment.

Here are some papers, presentations, and pictures representing my "research":

I wrote a booklet about artificial food coloring and children's behavior, in an effort to change school policies about food in the classrooms and lunchrooms: Chemical Colors, Brain Food & Children's Health. (The purpose of the booklet is two-fold. One goal is consumer education. Adults should know the risks that they, and particularly their children, take when they consume chemicals such as FD&C Yellow #5 and Red #40. The second objective is to persuade parents, teachers, and school administrators to stop serving chemically laden food to our children in schools.)

Below are titles and some links to my published articles: