Remember the excellent "Star Trek" film called "First Contact"? The plot centered on humans' first encounter with extraterrestrial beings, which the Borg -- those human-machine hybrids -- were attempting to prevent so that they could conquer Earth. Sometimes I think the Borg could have just waited for the Internet to come along, since so many things seem to have been conquered by it!

We're living through an era of what social scientists call a "tectonic event." Like an earthquake, digital communications of all kinds have disrupted and transformed human contacts in ways unheard-of 45 years ago when the first "Star Trek" episodes ran on TV. Why, we even have personal communicators now -- I think of Captain Kirk every time I open my cell phone.

Yet while the delivery systems have changed radically, the need for good, clear communication has not. In fact, the need for clear communication is even more acute, to be able to cut through the layers of chatter afforded us today by our new digital delivery systems.

That's where I come in. I'm a writer and editor whose passion is clear communication. I wrote and edited newspapers for 30 years. I've edited books, published poems, written press releases, designed newsletters, crafted reports -- you name it, and I've probably written a version of it somewhere. That's the level of skill and experience that underlies everything I do.

So since the Internet is now the global marketplace, here I am -- a scribe  sending out messages in pixels instead of ink. If you have a message that needs crafting, I'm the master scribe who can put words and images together for you.  Let's get connected.