
Marlene has a four-year degree in Fine Arts and two occupational certificates, one in Travel Management and one in International Business. (Both of these certificates are 30+ college credits.) She is certified to teach all art subjects in Kindergarten through the 12th grade.
Marlene has WriterAccess Industry Elite status in both Craft and Hobby. The several dozen "how-to" craft articles she has written under her byline have been well-received.
Marlene has WriterAccess Industry Elite status in Travel. She has traveled to more than 33 countries, components of countries, island nations, and island dependencies -- Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Bermuda, Bonaire, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Chile, Curacao, Denmark, England, Finland, Greece, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Hong Kong, India, Mexico, Moorea, New Zealand, Norway, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Scotland, St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas, Sweden, Tahiti, Taiwan, The Bahamas, Venezuela, and Wales. She has also traveled to more than half the states in this country.
Marlene enjoys travel and interacting with people who were born outside the United States. Marlene created a community (group) on Google+ for poets and poetry lovers. The members in this community resided in 70 countries.
Marlene designs and creates one-of-a-kind earrings, necklaces, and bracelets which she sells online in Facebook groups. She takes photographs of her jewelry, writes marketing pieces, and creates graphics in Photoshop.
Marlene attended Montclair State College (now Montclair University) on a New Jersey State Scholarship. She was awarded a BA in Fine Arts and was granted certification to teach art in Kindergarten through the 12th grade.
Marlene has traveled to more than 33 countries, components of countries, island nations, and island dependencies, as well as more than half of the states in the United States. She has occupational certificates in both Travel Management and International Business and has been employed as a travel agent. Marlene has written more than 50 travel-related articles and blog posts for WriterAccess clients and has been paid for writing, under her byline, more than 50 international culture-, linguistics-, museum-, and travel-related articles, including:
Facts About Cinco de Mayo
Gift Etiquette
Gypsies: Romani Language
"Hello" in Other Languages
How to Ask for the Toilet in Several Foreign Languages
How to Say "I Love You" in 165+ Languages
How to Understand Spoken Hawaiian Pidgin Language
Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
Annual Holidays in Paris
Athens, Greece: Syntagma Square, Plaka, Acropolis
Capitals of Europe
Caribbean: Geography Quiz
Countries of Central America
Countries of South America
Egyptian Museum (Cairo, Egypt)
England: Geography Quiz
European Capital Cities
Ghost Towns in California
Greece (Hellenic Republic): Geography Quiz
Greece: Oracle of Delphi
Greek Islands: Cyclades -- Mykonos and Delos
Hawaii: Geography Quiz
Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia)
History Museums in London, England: British Museum
History Museums in New York City (NYC)
History of the Teddy Bear -- Roosevelt, Steiff, and Vermont
International Spy Museum, Washington, DC
Legal Travel to Cuba for Americans
Los Angeles: Unusual Museums
Louvre Museum (Paris, France)
Mel Fisher Maritime Museum in Key West, FL
Military Museum: USS Midway (San Diego, California)
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Massachusetts)
National Gallery (London, England)
National Gallery (Washington, DC)
Paris, France: Video and Geography Quiz
Paul Gaugin (Tahiti): Painting Parodies
Penzance, Cornwall: Pirates
Prado Museum (Madrid, Spain)
Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Tea Producing Regions of India
The Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto
The History of San Juan, Puerto Rico
Things to Do in California With Kids
Washington, DC Travel
Marlene has been paid for writing, under her byline, more than 150 magazine-style educational articles. The articles include:
2008 UFO Crash at Needles California
Abstract Art Painting Ideas
Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
American Gothic (Grant Wood): Painting Parody
Annual Holidays in Paris
Antiques Roadshow Appraisals
Artist Unknown
Athens, Greece: Syntagma Square, Plaka, Acropolis
Biography of Pablo Picasso
Biography of the Father of National Parks: John Muir
Biography of the Pirate Mary Reed
Blue Laws around the World
Blue Laws in the United States
Broadway Terms and Definitions
Capitals of Europe
Caribbean: Geography Quiz
Claustrophobia and the MRI Machine
Comet Halley (Halley's Comet
Countries of Central America
Countries of South America
Cubism: The Art of Pablo Picasso
Dance Music of the 1970s: What is Disco Music?
Decorating Window Boxes for House Plants
Edvard Munch's "The Scream"
Egyptian Museum (Cairo, Egypt)
England: Geography Quiz
European Capital Cities
Explorers of Latin America
Facts About Cinco de Mayo
Forms of Poetry
Ghost Towns in California
Gift Etiquette
Greece (Hellenic Republic): Geography Quiz
Greece: Oracle of Delphi
Greek Islands: Cyclades -- Mykonos and Delos
Gypsies: Romani Language
Hawaii: Geography Quiz
"Hello" in Other Languages
Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia)
History Museums in London, England: BritishMuseum
History Museums in New York City (NYC)
History of the Nuestra Senora de Atocha Treasure Ship
History of the St. Patrick's Day Parade in America
History of the Teddy Bear -- Roosevelt, Steiff, and Vermont
History of the Tony Awards
How to Ask for the Toilet in Several Foreign Languages
How to Celebrate National Inconvenience Yourself Day
How to Make a Duck (Duct) Tape Hair Bow
How to Make a Duck (Duct) Tape Rose
How to Make a Duck (Duct) Tape Wallet
How to Make a Poodle Skirt
How to Make Bath Salts for a Gift
How to Make Friendship Bracelets
How to Make Soap: Easy Craft Project
How to Make Your Own Cookbook
How to Say "Happy New Year" in 165+ Languages
How to Say "I Love You" in 165+ Languages
How to Say "Merry Christmas" in 110+ Languages
How to Understand Spoken Hawaiian Pidgin Language
How to Write a Haiku about Nature
Impressionism vs Expressionism
Instrumental Classical Music: My Favorites
International Poetry
International Spy Museum, Washington, DC
Jackie Chan Death Hoax Urban Legend
Legal Travel to Cuba for Americans
Los Angeles: Unusual Museums
Louvre Museum (Paris, France)
Medications and Photosensitivity
Mel Fisher Maritime Museum in Key West, FL
Memorable Opera Duets and Arias
Military Museum: USS Midway (San Diego, California)
Mona Lisa (Leonardo da Vinci): Painting Parodies
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Massachusetts)
My Flying Lesson
National Gallery (London, England)
National Gallery (Washington, DC)
Paris, France: Video and Geography Quiz
Paul Gaugin (Tahiti): Painting Parodies
Penzance, Cornwall: Pirates
Poetry Forms
Polymer Clay: Jewelry-Making Supplies and Equipment
Prado Museum (Madrid, Spain)
Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Senryu: Family Photographs -- Unidentified Relatives
Senryu: Heartfelt Thoughts and Emotions in 17 Syllables
Social Media Terms and Definitions
Tea Producing Regions of India
The 1939 Academy Awards
The 1975 Travis Walton Alien Abduction Case
The Aztec, New Mexico UFO Crash
The Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto
The Broadway Musical Phantom of the Opera
The Broadway Musical South Pacific
The Farmington, New Mexico UFO Armada
The History of San Juan, Puerto Rico
Things to Do in California With Kids
Tips for Ordering Flowers Online
Tony Award for Best Musical
Tony Losing Broadway Musicals
Types of Citrus
Uffizi Gallery (Florence, Italy)
Unknown Artists
Urban Art (Street Art)
Vegan Vegetable Soup
Vincent van Gogh's Irises (Post-Impressionism)
Washington, DC Travel
What is a Parody?
Wine Cork & Bottle -- Family Craft Ideas
Wire Jewelry-Making: Supplies and Equipment
Women Painters
Marlene has written a number of medical-related articles under her byline. One article was Claustrophobia and the MRI Machine. Another was Medications and Photosensitivity.
In addition, Marlene has ghost-written articles for three WriterAccess clients who are dentists. The articles dealt with definitions of the types of cosmetic dentistry, dental implants vs. dentures, teeth whitening performed by a dentist vs. at-home teeth whitening kits, root canal, dental bonding, Invisalign braces, importance of flossing, eating and speaking with dentures, common denture problems, periodontal disease, and dental procedures during pregnancy.
Marlene has written 20 hospitality-related articles and blog posts for WriterAccess clients. These pieces discussed hotels and restaurants in cities in the United States and other countries. Several of the blog posts were for hotels. Marlene focused upon activities and sights in the given cities and then added a "where to stay" section in which the hotel was mentioned and its amenities described.
*Poetry*
Marlene has been paid for writing, under her byline, 10 poetry-related articles. Three of the articles discuss types of poetry. Established poets, after reading these articles, began writing poems in forms which were new to them. People who had never before written poetry began writing poems. The 10 articles include:
Forms of Poetry
How to Write a Haiku about Nature
International Poetry
Poetry Forms
Senryu: Family Photographs -- Unidentified Relatives
Senryu: Heartfelt Thoughts and Emotions in 17 Syllables
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*Biographies*
Marlene has been paid for writing, under her byline, five biographies. The articles include:
Biography of Pablo Picasso
Biography of the Father of National Parks: John Muir
Biography of the Pirate Mary Reed
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*Flying, UFOs, Paranormal Sightings*
Marlene has bee paid for writing, under her byline, five articles which either discuss flying, UFOs, or paranormal sightings. They are:
My Flying Lesson
2008 UFO Crash at Needles California
The 1975 Travis Walton Alien Abduction Case
The Aztec, New Mexico UFO Crash
The Farmington, New Mexico UFO Armada
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*Language, Linguistics, Translations*
Marlene has been paid for writing, under her byline, 10 articles which involve languages other than American English. They include:
Gypsies: Romani Language
"Hello" in Other Languages
How to Ask for the Toilet in Several Foreign Languages
How to Say "Happy New Year" in 165+ Languages
How to Say "I Love You" in 165+ Languages
How to Say "Merry Christmas" in 110+ Languages
How to Understand Spoken Hawaiian Pidgin Language
Marlene's first language is American English. She is very comfortable writing in British English and has paid experience doing so.
Marlene has been employed by insurance companies as both a forms analyst and a policy and procedure analyst. She has designed insurance forms and written policy endorsements and instructional documents which enabled the company's employees to do their jobs correctly.
Marlene has been paid for writing, under her byline, more than 20 kid- and family-friendly articles -- vacation destinations or attractions for families and craft projects children can either complete on their own and while being supervised by an adult.
Among these articles are the following:
Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
History of the Teddy Bear -- Roosevelt, Steiff, and Vermont International Spy Museum, Washington, DC
Los Angeles: Unusual Museums
Mel Fisher Maritime Museum in Key West, FL
Military Museum: USS Midway (San Diego, California)
Washington, DC Travel
The Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto
Things to Do in California With Kids
Abstract Art Painting Ideas
Decorating Window Boxes for House Plants
How to Make a Duck (Duct) Tape Hair Bow
How to Make a Duck (Duct) Tape Rose
How to Make a Duck (Duct) Tape Wallet
How to Make a Poodle Skirt
How to Make Bath Salts for a Gift
How to Make Friendship Bracelets
How to Make Soap: Easy Craft Project
How to Make Your Own Cookbook
Wine Cork & Bottle -- Family Craft Ideas
Marlene has more than 15 years of experience designing, developing, writing the HTML code for, creating, and maintaining Web sites. She learned to write HTML code using Notepad, rather than a drag-and-drop / WYSIWYG editor. Marlene incorporated her knowledge of SEO and keyword techniques into the HTML code she wrote. This enabled the Web sites to receive high listings in multiple search engines.
Marlene has a four-year degree in Fine Arts. She worked in an arts and crafts store, teaching classes to students from five to more than 80 years old. Marlene has been paid for writing, under her byline, more than 20 hobby-related articles, including:
Decorating Window Boxes for House Plants
How to Make a Duck (Duct) Tape Hair Bow
How to Make a Duck (Duct) Tape Wallet
How to Make Bath Salts for a Gift
How to Make Friendship Bracelets
How to Make Soap: Easy Craft Project
How to Make Your Own Cookbook
Polymer Clay: Jewelry-Making Supplies and Equipment
Wine Cork & Bottle -- Family Craft Ideas
Wire Jewelry-Making: Supplies and Equipment
Marlene has been paid for writing, under her byline, five music-related articles. The subject matter ranges from Broadway musicals to classical music to disco to opera, The articles are:
Dance Music of the 1970s: What is Disco Music?
Instrumental Classical Music: My Favorites
Memorable Opera Duets and Arias
The Broadway Musical Phantom of the Opera
The Broadway Musical South Pacific
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Marlene worked for an opera company based in Orange County, California. She wrote promotional brochures, press releases, and artist biographies for the company.
Marlene has a four-year degree in Fine Arts and certification to teach all art subjects in Kindergarten through the 12th grade. In addition to her teacher certification, Marlene has worked as an arts and crafts counselor in summer camps and a crafts instructor at Michaels, The Arts and Crafts Store.She has been paid for writing, under her byline, more than 20 craft-related articles, including:
Abstract Art Painting Ideas
Decorating Window Boxes for House Plants
How to Make a Duck (Duct) Tape Hair Bow
How to Make a Duck (Duct) Tape Rose
How to Make a Duck (Duct) Tape Wallet
How to Make a Poodle Skirt
How to Make Bath Salts for a Gift
How to Make Friendship Bracelets
How to Make Soap: Easy Craft Project
How to Make Your Own Cookbook
Polymer Clay: Jewelry-Making Supplies and Equipment
Wine Cork & Bottle -- Family Craft Ideas
Wire Jewelry-Making: Supplies and Equipment
Marlene has been paid for writing, under her byline, more than 15 entertainment- and performing arts-related articles, including:
Broadway Terms and Definitions
Dance Music of the 1970s: What is Disco Music?
History of the Tony Awards
Instrumental Classical Music: My Favorites
Memorable Operas and Duets
The 1939 Academy Awards
The Broadway Musical Phantom of the Opera
The Broadway Musical South Pacific
Tony Award for Best Musical
Tony Losing Broadway Musicals
Marlene has written several technology-related articles for WriterAccess clients and was paid for writing, under her byline, Social Media Terms and Definitions. This article explained what social media is, and what a social network is. The types of social media -- blogs, content-sharing sites, microblogging sites, online forums, social networking sites, and wikis -- were discussed in general terms. Key facts about popular social media sites were presented.
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Marlene has served as the technical editor of a number of books in the Information Technology industry. These books were involved with Flash animation and the ActionScript coding language.
Marlene has written several blog posts for attorneys who are WriterAccess clients. Outside of WriterAccess, Marlene has been paid for writing, under her byline, three articles pertaining to aspects of the law. Since Marlene is not an attorney, these articles are for informational purposes only and do not contain legal advice.
The articles are:
Blue Laws around the World
Blue Laws in the United States
Legal Travel to Cuba for Americans
Marlene has ghostwritten auto industry articles for WriterAccess clients. Some were direct mail pieces, and some were blog entries. One direct mail piece was for a client who had recently purchased an automobile repair establishment which had been in business for nearly 20 years. The new owner wanted to assure customers they would be getting the same great service from their favorite mechanics. He was offering a grand opening special in order to entice customers to come into the shop.
Marlene has been paid for writing, under her byline, three food- and beverage-related articles. One article,Vegan Vegetable Soup, contains a healthy recipe for a soup which does not contain any animals products or byproducts. There is a chart in the article which showcases the types of vegetarianism.
Another article, Types of Citrus, explains what citrus is. It discusses many of the more than 100 members of the genus citrus.
The third article, Tea Producing Regions of India, lists the top ten tea producing regions in the world. It focuses upon the regions in India in which tea is grown.
Marlene has been paid for writing five articles, under her byline, which are humorous.
Marlene has written two articles about blue laws:
Blue Laws around the World
Blue Laws in the United States
A blue law is a law restricting or forbidding certain non-religious activities on Sundays. This type of law originated in New England in the 1780s.The Puritans felt that Sundays should be reserved for religious observances.
The articles are both informative and laugh-out-loud funny.
Marlene wrote My Gripes about Bad Drivers. This subject can be a serious one. Using humor is a way to get the points across in a manner to which readers will listen.
Marlene has been paid for writing, under her byline, the following science- and health-related articles.
Comet Halley (Halley's Comet)
Claustrophobia and the MRI Machine
Medications and Photosensitivity
Marlene has written more than 110 blog posts for WriterAccess clients, the majority of which exceeded the clients' expectations. Due to her success with writing blog posts, Marlene has achieved Asset Elite status in this area at WriterAccess. In addition, she has designed, developed, created, edited, written posts for, and maintained a number of blogs for private clients.. One blog was for a DJ in Brooklyn, New York. It focused upon the DJ's mobile business. Another blog was for an individual in Southern California who bought and sold World War II memorabilia. A third blog was for an individual who was angry about the way people in a certain category were treated in the United States. This person provided the ideas from which Marlene created blog entries.
Marlene has written more than 150 magazine-type articles under her byline, including:
2008 UFO Crash at Needles California
Abstract Art Painting Ideas
Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
American Gothic (Grant Wood): Painting Parody
Annual Holidays in Paris
Antiques Roadshow Appraisals
Artist Unknown
Athens, Greece: Syntagma Square, Plaka, Acropolis
Biography of Pablo Picasso
Biography of the Father of National Parks: John Muir
Biography of the Pirate Mary Reed
Blue Laws around the World
Blue Laws in the United States
Broadway Terms and Definitions
Capitals of Europe
Caribbean: Geography Quiz
Claustrophobia and the MRI Machine
Comet Halley (Halley's Comet
Countries of Central America
Countries of South America
Cubism: The Art of Pablo Picasso
Dance Music of the 1970s: What is Disco Music?
Decorating Window Boxes for House Plants
Edvard Munch's "The Scream"
Egyptian Museum (Cairo, Egypt)
England: Geography Quiz
European Capital Cities
Explorers of Latin America
Facts About Cinco de Mayo
Forms of Poetry
Ghost Towns in California
Gift Etiquette
Greece (Hellenic Republic): Geography Quiz
Greece: Oracle of Delphi
Greek Islands: Cyclades -- Mykonos and Delos
Gypsies: Romani Language
Hawaii: Geography Quiz
"Hello" in Other Languages
Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia)
History Museums in London, England: BritishMuseum
History Museums in New York City (NYC)
History of the Nuestra Senora de Atocha Treasure Ship
History of the St. Patrick's Day Parade in America
History of the Teddy Bear -- Roosevelt, Steiff, and Vermont
History of the Tony Awards
How to Ask for the Toilet in Several Foreign Languages
How to Celebrate National Inconvenience Yourself Day
How to Make a Duck (Duct) Tape Hair Bow
How to Make a Duck (Duct) Tape Rose
How to Make a Duck (Duct) Tape Wallet
How to Make a Poodle Skirt
How to Make Bath Salts for a Gift
How to Make Friendship Bracelets
How to Make Soap: Easy Craft Project
How to Make Your Own Cookbook
How to Say "Happy New Year" in 165+ Languages
How to Say "I Love You" in 165+ Languages
How to Say "Merry Christmas" in 110+ Languages
How to Understand Spoken Hawaiian Pidgin Language
How to Write a Haiku about Nature
Impressionism vs Expressionism
Instrumental Classical Music: My Favorites
International Poetry
International Spy Museum, Washington, DC
Jackie Chan Death Hoax Urban Legend
Legal Travel to Cuba for Americans
Los Angeles: Unusual Museums
Louvre Museum (Paris, France)
Medications and Photosensitivity
Mel Fisher Maritime Museum in Key West, FL
Memorable Opera Duets and Arias
Military Museum: USS Midway (San Diego, California)
Mona Lisa (Leonardo da Vinci): Painting Parodies
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Massachusetts)
My Flying Lesson
National Gallery (London, England)
National Gallery (Washington, DC)
Paris, France: Video and Geography Quiz
Paul Gaugin (Tahiti): Painting Parodies
Penzance, Cornwall: Pirates
Poetry Forms
Polymer Clay: Jewelry-Making Supplies and Equipment
Prado Museum (Madrid, Spain)
Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Senryu: Family Photographs -- Unidentified Relatives
Senryu: Heartfelt Thoughts and Emotions in 17 Syllables
Social Media Terms and Definitions
Tea Producing Regions of India
The 1939 Academy Awards
The 1975 Travis Walton Alien Abduction Case
The Aztec, New Mexico UFO Crash
The Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto
The Broadway Musical Phantom of the Opera
The Broadway Musical South Pacific
The Farmington, New Mexico UFO Armada
The History of San Juan, Puerto Rico
Things to Do in California With Kids
Tips for Ordering Flowers Online
Tony Award for Best Musical
Tony Losing Broadway Musicals
Types of Citrus
Uffizi Gallery (Florence, Italy)
Unknown Artists
Urban Art (Street Art)
Vegan Vegetable Soup
Vincent van Gogh's Irises (Post-Impressionism)
Washington, DC Travel
What is a Parody?
Wine Cork & Bottle -- Family Craft Ideas
Wire Jewelry-Making: Supplies and Equipment
Women Painters
Marlene worked for Opera Pacific, an opera company based in the city of Santa Ana in Orange County, California. The company performed at the Orange County Performing Arts Center (now called the Segerstrom Center for the Arts) in Costa Mesa. She wrote promotional brochures, press releases, and artist biographies for the company. There were four to six operas performed during the season. Multiple press releases were needed for each production. Marlene has also written press releases for a WriterAccess client involved with television production. These press releases were for the promotion of a series of public television educational programs.
Marlene has written direct mail pieces for a WriterAccess client in the auto industry who recently purchased an existing business. The new owner of the shop wanted to assure customers they would be getting the same great service they had always gotten when they brought their cars in for service.