User:Carolan

Carolan Gladden is a writer, editor, author, blogger and blogcaster from Portland, Oregon. And now, after some 20 years in San Diego, she has moved back. In 1982 she authored "The First Book of Oregon Jazz, Rock & All Sorts of Music" and later the self-published "Be A Successful Writer." as well as "Sweet Compulsions: A Wry Tale of Music, Multiculture and Mayhem" (unpublished). For several years she was Senior Developmental Editor of Major Reference Works with Harcourt/Academic Press. Her multi-volume life science encylopedia projects include: Stress, Human Brain, Human Biloogy, Hormones and Endocrine Diseases.

When Elsevier bought the company and outsourced her group, she did a stint at the San Diego VA Medical Center and finally became Admin Specialist at UC San Diego. Her position encompassed writing, editing and database coordination for 4 scientific research institutes: Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center, Institute for Neural Computation, Center for Research in Language and Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind.

Since 2006 she has maintained a blogcast "On the Upbeat" comprised of rants and raves, personal and political musings, using music to illustrate a post whenever possible: http://blogcast.on-the-upbeat.com/, and in February 2011 she inaugurated "On the Edge" -- a blog exploring ecstasy and anguish in narrative, music and photos: http://ontheedgeblogdotcom.wordpress.com/.

Her intentions as of August 2011 are to continue blogging, writing, keeping up on the music and arts scene and hopefully fill temp or part-time positions within Oregon Health & Science University.

--Carolan (talk) 16:24, 25 July 2011 (UTC)