LAURIE ALLEE
Words and Pictures 
 

I'm a writer, a photographer, a videographer...

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...a mom, a bookworm, a black sheep, a magical realist, a champion of underdogs, a collector of absurdities, a gadfly, a believer in the precautionary principle, a bliss-follower, and a long-winded rambler. I was born and raised in Austin, Texas but headed west right after college. Los Angeles is home, and I live here with my lovely family.

After a few years in film and TV production, I have enjoyed over 30 years as a freelance writer in copywriting, advertising, marketing, journalism, ghostwriting, branding, newsletters, website creation, medical copy, and all kinds of internet content.  I used to publish short stories.  I was a multimedia columnist at South Pasadena Patch for several years. I have been a blogger since 2007. I'm an infrequent filmmaker, a frequent editor, and a prolific but unproduced screenwriter. Someday I'll finally publish my novel.

As a street photographer, I have exhibited my photographs and licensed them for commercial use.  

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I used my now-retired Twitter account from 2020 to late 2023 to compile and organize studies, articles, and expert discussions pertinent to Covid-19.  All compilations and links to other Covid and Long Covid resources are duplicated as an archive and ongoing Covid resource.  (I quietly add new studies, articles, discussions, and videos to my files every week, but no longer update the original threads on Twitter.)

Just call me your pandemic librarian.  

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I still believe the Internet can democratize art, film, fiction, journalism, literature and public health education... if people will just get off social media long enough to make it happen.   

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I, however, will not be on the internet in any personal way for the foreseeable future.  I have no active social media. Blogs have been left up as archives.  Updates, essays, photographs, podcasts, and videos will be posted to this website. For now: consider me offline. (Or at least in Airplane mode.)

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