: About Me

Colette Georgii's role as a member of Helium is as the Science Channel Manager. overseeing all areas of  science including the physical sciences, earth sciences, and social sciences; also the biology channels and medical science channels. 

Colette has a diverse education enabling her to have keen insight into all of the science channels. She is also a team player and runs her channel with feedback from the other channel managers in her channel; and always considers the viewpoints of her team of excellently qualified channel managers.

Colette likes keeping her channels filled with new titles to help bring in new writers and to keep current science channel writers active and happy. 

As a member of Helium, Colette is also a Title Seeder and a Community Editor.  These roles help her to keep a close eye out on titles and articles in her channels; and she especially enjoys the role of Title Seeder, because she is a natural at creating new titles. She, however, also encourages writers and channel managers to submit title suggestions in order to ensure all writers to the science channels have a voice in what they will be writing about.

Colette's main interests in the Science Channel are the Earth Science channels and the Social Science channels with her main focus being the Ecology & Environment channel; and she also likes the Sociology, Anthropology and Psychology channels. 

As a writer, Colette has written articles in all Helium channels giving lifetime insights and unique comments on many diverse issues.

Her goal as a writer is to continue freelance writing as a lifetime career and to finish her works in progress - a screenplay and a novel. Colette began her writing career back in high school where she was a reporter for the high school newspaper. In her first year of college she was the copy editor for the college newspaper and also wrote articles for the front page, doing interviews, and reporting on college activities.

Colette has written many business materials such as press releases, entertainment programs, and resumes.

She also writes and develops business plans, organizational assessments, organizational charts, strategic plans, and project plans.

Although her specialization is writing, she is also an excellent cook, a talented artist, a gifted seamstress/coutouriere, a Silver Level Professional Ballroom Dancer, and an avid book collector.

She is also interested in history, genealogy, politics, environmental issues and wildlife, flowers and gardening, farming, music and entertainment, and educational research.

Colette Georgii has traveled throughout much of the United States. As a child there were yearly visits to the grandparents in the New England states. As an adult she visited the Southern states, the Western and Midwestern states, and again the New England states while attending Graduate School in New Hampshire. She chose the graduate school in New Hampshire, because New Hampshire is where her grandfather and grandmother were born.

Colette grew up in an interesting cultural environment which probably contributes to the huge repertoire of experiences she holds in her background knowledge. Her father was in show business. He was a ventriloquist, singer, tap dancer, ballroom dancer, and magician. Her mother was a concert pianist who sometimes performed on stage with her father. Her mother was also a top managerial office worker at three different top businesses within her community.

Before the age of five Colette witnessed her father's many small businesses: an indoor miniature golf course, pool room, barber shop, auction house, golf driving range, produce stand, and drive-in movie theater. She loved picking up the golf balls on the driving range. When she was five, the family moved to a new location further out in the country. This was a 26 acre farm. He again started up an auction house, barber shop, pool room, and drive-in theater at this location, along with managing the farm.

The farm was a wonderful place with a spring, creek, and many fruit trees. They grew tomatoes, potatoes, and the best sweet corn anyone can imagine. Colette spent many days in the fields as a child picking the harvest. The very large tomatoes never got in the basket, because she sat down in the field and ate them. They also grew a one acre truck patch of many different garden vegetables. There was a red raspberry patch and wild black raspberries. Strawberries were a specialty and they grew many different varieties of strawberries.

Farming was all natural. No pesticides or sprays were ever used. Fruit trees were allowed to yield naturally. Much of the fruit was canned for the winter. The animals on the farm were goats, chickens, ducks, rabbits, and pigeons.

Colette's education became her educational role model project while raising her four children who are now ages 26, 41, 43, and 45. (Three grandchildren - one is in his third year of college). She went back to college when her older children were teenagers and she again went back when her youngest child was a teenager.

She received her MBA in 2002 and also holds an MS in Community Economic Development (1998) and a BS in Education with a concentration in Social Science and a Secondary Teaching Certificate in Social Studies.

Her work experiences include sales (direct sales, retail sales, and telemarketing), teaching, director of an Arts Center, manager and president of a Natural Foods Co-op; and self-employment as a resume writer, telemarketer (mostly construction sales), and dressmaker. She currently does volunteer work at a local non-profit organization.

Colette offers keen insight into today's many cultural, societal, and political issues and her words are truly ingenious offerings for today's global world.

Check out the links to the right for Colette's Science Channel Zones. 

My passion is ...

Life and everything that comes with it including reading, writing, and thinking.

I know too much about ...

Everything and not enough about anything

My parents always told me ...

To stop talking

My childhood ambition ...

At age six I wanted to be a teacher. At age 15 I wanted to be a teacher or writer.

My favorite memory ...

Too many favorite memories, but I guess the best would be the yearly trips to my grandmother in Massachusetts when I was a child.

Why I write ...

I write to give the best of me to the world and to young people who are just beginning.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

My favorite reading is Philip Roth. For music I like progressive jazz - Miles Davis Sketches of Spain is my favorite. I like the Godfather and movies by Pedro Almodovar and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. My favorite singers are Bob Dylan, Marvin Gaye, Billy Holiday, Nina Simone, and Joan Baez.

My first job ...

Waitress when I was fourteen after school

My best moment ...

The birth of spring flowers and the birth of my children. Also, being at my MBA graduation ceremony and receiving my degree.

My inspiration ...

Books by famous authors or about famous people.

Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: A black tie event

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Lisa walked into the ballroom. She was dressed elegantly in a long flowing lavender gown. She had been looking forward to this event for quite a while now. It was the premier event of the little town where she lived. Held every year in the spring it was an event to showcase local ballroom dancers. It was also a charity event to help the various causes people of the little town thought were important such as environmental causes and animal rights causes. The ballroom was lavishly decorated and other people were beginning to enter the ballroom. Lisa walked around and began talking to some of...

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Writing:

Rating:

• Marketplace Premier Writer
• 5Writing Contest Winner
• Editorial Advisory Board
• Teacher
• Channel Manager Science
• Marketplace Approved Writer
• 14Marketplace Articles Sold
• Channel Manager Sciences
• Helium Charter Member