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After a career in Marketing Communications, I turned my attention to writing screenplays and novels and producing/directing short films through my company, Entellegint Entertainment, LLC.

To date, I've written three feature length screenplays and a science

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Sciences > Water & Oceanography When will people worldwide have enough clean, safe water to drink?: 1 of 31

"It's not going to happen" will be the short and tragic answer to the question if governing bodies throughout the world continue to side-step the troubling reality of our planet's shrinking fresh water supply. The challenges of global warming, pollution from industrial waste and sewage disposal, and the deterioration of wate...
Politics, News & Issues > Pulitzer Center How can US foreign policy be improved by the paradox that Iran is often viewed as America's most serious threat even though its youthful population is among the most pro-western Muslim countries?: 2 of 34

It is a huge mistake for the United States government to isolate Iran as the number one threat to our national security. The Bush Administration has gone to great lengths to convince the American people that the international community must stop Iran from developing a nuclear energy program. The administration fears Iran wil...
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: People we miss: 7 of 74

I remember the day my father asked me to be a partner in the stable. He was sitting behind his desk in the temporary office space we rented at the time, dressed in a camel colored sport coat and checkered cotton sport shirt. He looked straight at me with his bright, keen eyes and proceeded to make an offer that took me back ...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Aliens: 4 of 35

The Millennium Predictions Seagulls falling out of the sky raised a line of puffs on the barren beach. The birds made no sound as they thwacked into the sand. Darren glanced upward, shielding his eyes from the blazing sun. Nikki, lying on the pink towel next to him, rose on both elbows. She screamed. More birds pelted the be...
Religion & Spirituality > Self-Awareness & Realization Achieving confidence and self esteem: 3 of 24

Where does self confidence come from? Where does it go when we need it most? How does an energetic child with a mountainous capacity for curiosity grow up to be a narrow-minded, emotionally constricted person full of hopelessness and suffering? The answer is simple. We lose the key to the door that opens to a satisfying exis...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Desire: 46 of 335

I see a woman shopping in a shoe department She is long and lean, quite beautiful and unmindful of my lustful stare She is like so many women I desperately want to make love to I am a fool, of course because what I want can never be satisfied by any woman Even the most beautiful woman in the world cannot quench the flame tha...
Religion & Spirituality > Setting Life Goals Why you should enlist a life coach: 3 of 14

When you run into a wall and fall on your face, it's time to call a life coach. Actually, it's time to call one way before this happens, but most people have to become extremely desperate before they will ask for help. This is one of the more unfortunate facets of human nature because most successful people will readily admi...
Religion & Spirituality > Setting Life Goals Key principles to achieving your dreams: 3 of 14

I have found one of the best ways to keep my life interesting is to make a regular practice of doing things I haven't done before. If I am bored, apathetic, uninspired, or generally in a rut, it is usually because I have allowed myself to become a creature of habit. A lack of enthusiasm can be overcome by exposure to new ide...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Dark fantasy: 10 of 43

The words resounded against the dripping walls. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. Blood trickled from the corners of Trevor Hartigan's mouth. His awareness flickered from the pain coursing through his broken fingertips to the oppressive heat in the room, to the crooked expression on the interrogator's ugly face. If you lie to me ag...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Defining moments: 14 of 59

The moment arrived unannounced during a set of solitary yoga postures on my plush, living room rug. A long stretch to relieve the tension of the day popped something open inside me. It was not a ligament or a tendon. It was my hardened heart. In the Hollywood version of the story, the hero manages to crawl to the phone, call...