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About the author: Alan Gordon is a veteran journalist.

Number of posts: 6
Email address: alangordon@bellsouth.net

About the author: Alex writes for a variety of national and international publications. A relative newcomer to the United States, she co-founded her town's first environmental organization (The St. Marys EarthKeepers, Inc.). In turns bemused, confused, entranced, frustrated and delighted, she enjoys unravelling the eternal enigma that is the Deep South.

Number of posts: 40
Email address: alexkearns1@msn.com
Web site: http://www.alexkearns.com

About the author: Alice Murray works with Lenz Marketing, Public Relations and Design on the Decatur Square. She joined Lenz in 2007 after retiring from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In her years with the AJC, she worked throughout the company, starting as a reporter for The Atlanta Constitution. Throughout the 1990s, she managed the company’s Special Sections and Advertising Creative departments before joining the marketing department in 2000.  She is president of the board of the AJC Decatur Book Festival, has served on the board of directors of The Empty Stocking Fund, and is currently on the board of Georgia Shakespeare. She is a graduate of the Leadership DeKalb Class of 2006. Alice is originally from Cleveland, Tennessee, and is a journalism graduate of Auburn University.

Number of posts: 4
Email address: amurray218@gmail.com

About the author: Alyssa Cagle is a senior in journalism and electronic media with a minor in English at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Alyssa has served as an intern for both the White House and Sen. Bob Corker while at UT.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: acagle2@utk.edu

About the author: Andy Meyer is a native of St. Simons Island, Georgia. After graduating with a journalism degree from the University of Georgia, she lived briefly in Savannah before heading west. She made it as far as New Orleans, where she met and married a local boy. She's currently a grant writer and administrator at Tulane University and spends her free time reading, writing, and teaching her four-year-old daughter, Emmeline, the importance of phrases like "Go Dawgs" and "Who Dat." She blogs at www.gris-grits.blogspot.com.

Number of posts: 4
Email address: andlee30@hotmail.com
Web site: http://gris-grits.blogspot.com

About the author: Andrew's fiction and non-fiction deals with often muddy waters of theology and has appeared in places like Metazen, On the Wing, decomP, Nanoism, and more. He is the founding editor of Divine Dirt Quarterly and blogs at The Dirty Prophet.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: abowen@divinedirtquarterly.com
Web site: http://www.bowenandrew.blogspot.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Andrew-Bowen/100000542373726

About the author: Andy Brack is a syndicated columnist in South Carolina and the publisher and a columnist for StatehouseReport.com. Brack, who holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, also publishes a twice-weekly newsletter about good news in the Charleston area, CharlestonCurrents.com. A former U.S. Senate press secretary and reporter, Brack has a national reputation as a communications strategist and Internet pioneer. As a communications strategist, he's recently worked with the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Charleston School of Law. Brack received a bachelor’s degree from Duke University. He, his wife, two daughters and Simon the Wonderdog live in Charleston, S.C.

Number of posts: 11
Email address: brack@statehousereport.com
Web site: http://statehousereport.com/

About the author: Andy Miller is an Atlanta-based freelance writer specializing in health care. He worked for the AJC for 24 years, covering health care for the last 17 years. He now writes for aol.com's WalletPop, where he has a column "Dollars & Health,"' and for WebMD. He has also written articles for Kaiser Health News, AARP's Bulletin, msnbc.com and Emory Magazine. He is a Duke grad.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: andymill111@yahoo.com

About the author: Anna Dolianitis, originally from northern New Jersey, is a writer with specific interests in health reporting and narrative nonfiction style - usually not at the same time. She is currently pursuing a masters degree in Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia’s Grady College and has a bachelors in journalism and political science from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst. While she might not stay in the South forever, it's been good to her so far.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: adolianitis1@yahoo.com

About the author: April Adams is a South Carolinian with a passion for creating. She designs and develops Web sites and makes videos for a living as a freelancer. She's also in love with the written word and it's power to evoke emotion, change minds and move people to action.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: aadams@memorykeepersmedia.com
Web site: http://memorykeepersmedia.com/mkblog/

About the author: Ariel Harris, believer in the positive and intentional language, artist, writer, empowerer/tutor for 'at-risk' kids, shares life-joy with her soul mate Jamal (of ‘round midnite' fame, WCQS), has a bevy of three grown socially conscious extraordinary children plus two wonderful loving wedding additions, two granddaughters, and is awaiting heralding the time of great comfort for all. Ariel is available for comfort sessions and can be reached at arielharris14@yahoo.com.

Number of posts: 7
Email address: arielharris14@yahoo.com

About the author: http://www.austen.la Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Austen Risolvato began her career as a rock photographer at the age of 14 for local bands. She attended Savannah College of Art and Design before moving to Los Angeles, California, where she currently resides. For the duration of 2009 Risolvato took an almost complete sabbatical from the touring industry to work for and study under world renowned photographer David LaChapelle. Risolvato has been the official tour photographer of several multi-platinum artists, including 311, Daughtry, and the All-American Rejects. She has also toured with Sugarcult, Zebrahead and Zack Hexum. In addition, Risolvato has photographed many other artists, including New Kids on the Block, Bon Jovi, No Doubt, Green Day, Snoop Dogg, Better than Ezra, Bush, Bone Thugs N Harmony, Res, Hoobastank, Incubus, and more. Her photos have been published in magazines worldwide, including GUITAR Player, BASS Player, BASS Japan, DRUM Japan, Grindhouse (Japan), Alternative Press and BASS Guitar.

Number of posts: 6
Email address: austizzle@mac.com
Web site: http://www.austen.la

Number of posts: 11
Email address: austinmcmurria@gmail.com

About the author: Former hack at daily newspapers, now hack journalism professor at the University of Georgia. Number cruncher and longtime Net user, caffeine addict, writer of weird fiction, and a semi-retired god in an online fantasy world where godhood suits him quite well, thank you very much. He also blogs at http://www.whatpeopleknow.com

Number of posts: 12
Email address: barry@uga.edu
Web site: http://www.barryhollander.com

About the author: A native Atlantan and graduate of the University of Georgia, Bert presently lives in beautiful Brooklyn, NY. He is a student at New York Law School in lower Manhattan. After graduation in May 2010, Bert plans to go on to pursue a career in civil rights law.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: brough84@gmail.com

About the author: Bill Montgomery, aka "Monty," packed it in two years ago after more than 30 years as an AJC reporter, covering mostly crime and other forms of public insanity, such as political campaigns, strip club crackdowns, and the Georgia legislature. His career includes coverage of zanies that run the gamut from Lester Maddox and J.B. Stoner to Larry Flynt, and crime reporting that followed the 1973 Alday family killings in South Georgia to the execution of ringleader Carl Isaacs 30 years later, and the 20-year saga of Palm Beach millionaire James V. Sullivan, who hired the murder of his estranged wife at her Buckhead condo by a gunman packing a pistol in a box of roses. Montgomery lives in a Decatur condo with his wife Linda and their Boston terrier.

Number of posts: 7
Email address: monty41@bellsouth.net

About the author: Bill Semple, LCSW, has worked in community mental health for many years and now bills insurance companies for a living. These and other experiences inspire his working to shift our reliance on for-profit insurers to a single, not-for-profit system. He is a member of Health Care for All Colorado and is working on developing a single payer citizens initiative for the State of Colorado, as the legislative process does not appear up to the task.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: bluehouse1800@yahoo.com

About the author: Billy Howard is a commercial and documentary photographer with an emphasis on education and global health.

Number of posts: 39
Email address: billy@billyhoward.com
Web site: http://www.billyhoward.com

About the author: Bob retired as the deputy director of the Jimmy Carter Library in 2008.  Since then he's been doing some writing and enjoying the good life in Decatur, Georgia.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: rdb1861@gmail.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/robert.bohanan

About the author: Bootsie Lucas is the pseudonym for an Atlanta writer who is a former editor and reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Macon Telegraph.

Number of posts: 4
Email address: mcl47@att.net
Web site: http://likethedew.com

About the author: New Orleans family. War baby. Family moved a lot. Secondary and college education in Memphis, TN. Just before 1967 graduation, commissioning and tour of leafy, lovely Vietnam, banged up in auto accident. Decided to go into journalism. Tennessee mountain weekly, small Mississippi daily and nearly three decades in Atlanta. Black and alternative newspapers, freelance photojournalist, public radio news and documentary producer, news writer for CNN. Married Deborah James, followed her to Los Angeles for job. Quit the dismal trade and became middle school English teacher in LA barrio school. Quite happy.

Number of posts: 12
Email address: boyd.lewis90@yahoo.com
Web site: http://www.boydsatlanta.com

About the author: Brad Clayton is a long-time Atlanta-area journalist.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: maura.lai@hotmail.com

About the author: Brian Randall is an architect, artist and print maker based in Decatur, Georgia.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: brian.g.randall@gmail.com

About the author: A founding staff member of Atlanta Business Chronicle in 1978, Carol went on to become editor of the Chronicle and and, subsequently, seven different Chronicle special publications. She was consumer reporter for WXIA-TV's Noonday Show, and she wrote educational videos for Optical Data School Media. Freelancing now for far too long, Carol wrote the 125-year history of Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta, wrote annual reports for such clients as Delta Air Lines and the Georgia Tech Foundation, and edited a book of short stories for the Emory University School of Nursing. She lives in North Georgia.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: carolcarter@tds.net

About the author: Casey Hayden, a Texas native, was a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and a leading activist for civil rights during the 1960s. She lived in Atlanta part of the 1960s working with SNCC. She now lives in Arizona.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: buckokc@earthlink.net

About the author: Cathleen Hulbert, MSW, LCSW, is a free-lance journalist and clinical social worker who spent six years living in New York City where she earned her graduate degree from Columbia University School of Social Work and worked in the neighborhoods of Brooklyn. During that time, unexpected teachers began to emerge who would set the stage for the writing of this novel. She later traveled to Hawaii to answer the call of Kalah and to embrace the healing power of Aloha. She returned with a renewed dedication to sea turtle conservation, a burning love for the Hawaiian culture and a deeper respect for the needs of Mother Earth. She now lives in Roswell, Georgia, where she works in the healthcare field and continues to write. In November 2008 Cathleen was a co-recipient of the National Hemophilia Foundation's "Distinction in Communication Award" for helping teens with chronic bleeding disorders create their own camp newspapers. Her current project is a sequel to "The First Lamp."

Number of posts: 5
Email address: cathleen.hulbert@yahoo.com
Web site: http://www.cathleenhulbert.com

About the author: A South Carolina native, Charles Seabrook has been a long-time environmental writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. His books include "Cumberland Island: Strong Women, Wild Horses" and "Red Clay, Pink Cadillacs and White Gold: Georgia’s Kaolin Chalk Wars." A resident of Decatur, Georgia, Seabrook also was one of the first reporters in the world to write about the mysterious disease that would soon be known as AIDS. He has written extensively on global warming, air and water pollution, and songbird decline.

Number of posts: 2
Email address: seabrk@comcast.net

About the author: A veteran of Florida and Georgia journalism and a renowned roadhouse musician, Charles Walston is now a speechwriter in Washington.

Number of posts: 2
Email address: cwalston@nea.org
Web site: http://www.myspace.com/thebourbondynasty

About the author: Chris Wohlwend is working on a memoir titled "Ridge Running: Encounters in Appalachia." He lives in Knoxville.

Number of posts: 13
Email address: cwohlwen@utk.edu

About the author: Owner of Sun Dog Trading Co. a unique art gallery/fly fishing store/BBQ and hot dog joint at NE corner of Yellowstone National Park. "No rubber tomahawks" is our motto.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: cburdet@montana.com

About the author: Chrysis Boswell Graham lives in Atlanta and St. Simons Island, Georgia. She grew up in Mobile, Alabama, and also has lived in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and Knoxville, Tennessee. For many years, she was a flight attendant for Delta Air Lines, a company that grew out of a crop-dusting service in Monroe, Louisiana.

Number of posts: 3
Email address: chrysisg@aol.com

About the author: Cliff Green is a former writer for The Atlanta Journal. He worked there when it was a real newspaper. His accomplishments since include the fact that he has never watched a minute of reality TV, and he has never been inside a Starbuck's. He owns no device onto which he can download music, nor does he know how to record a television show. He is not sure what an iPhone is. He is proud of all the above.

Number of posts: 15
Email address: cggreen@mindspring.com

About the author: Craig Miller is a film and television producer in Atlanta, GA. His companies, Craig Miller Productions and C Pictures, have produced work for Fortune 500 Companies and Advertising Agencies for 24 years. He is currently the Co-President of the Georgia Production Partnership, a statewide organization dedicated to growing the feature film business in the state of Georgia.

Number of posts: 2
Email address: craig@craigmiller.tv
Web site: http://www.craigmiller.tv

About the author: Dallas Lee, former writer and editor for The Associated Press and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, retired as a speechwriter from Bank of America. He is author of The Cotton Patch Evidence: The Story of Clarence Jordan and the Koinonia Farm Experiment (Harper & Row 1971).

Number of posts: 17
Email address: dml42@att.net

About the author: Married to a Southerner, Dan was born and grew up in San Francisco, California and is a citizen of the U.S. Thanks to his Like the Dew author wife Kate McNally’s research skills, he successfully gathered the necessary documents to successfully claim his citizenship in the Republic of Ireland through his Irish ancestry. Following a career in corporate Human Resources with a variety of organizations in North America, he took early retirement, earned a Cambridge Certificate in English language teaching to adults (CELTA), and moved with Kate to Verviers, in eastern Belgium (near the Ardennes Forest where tens of thousands of American young men lost their lives in the famous ‘Battle of the Bulge’ to successfully bring an end to World War II in Europe) to teach English to adults who speak other languages such as French, German and Dutch – the three official languages of Belgium. An article by Dan on how to move abroad can still be found on the website of the former magazine Transitions Abroad at http://www.transitionsabroad.com/publications/magazine/0507/moving_abroad.shtml Today, he does volunteer English language training and French to English translations for Médecins sans frontières (MSF – Doctors without Borders) in Brussels and leads English language conversation groups in Verviers.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: daniel_flynn39@yahoo.com
Linkedin: http://be.linkedin.com/pub/daniel-flynn/5/a5a/58
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Daniel-Flynn/1303027861

About the author: The more that you hate, the harder I work, the harder I work, the better I get, the better I get, the more you hate... Daniel Palmer is Vice President of Sports and Entertainment at Atlas Strategies. LLC. He played football on scholarship at Columbia University and was a 2007 graduate with a major in political science. He is an Atlanta native who graduated from the Westminster Schools in 2003. Follow Daniel on Twitter at: http://m.twitter.com/dpalm66 Blog: http://dpalm66.blogspot.com/

Number of posts: 5
Email address: dpalm66@gmail.com

About the author: I am an Appalachian author, Professor emeritus at Marshall University, the father of two daughters and grandfather to 5 boys and one girl. I was born on a farm in Southern Ohio and have earned degrees from Rio Grande College, Marshall University, and the University of Tennessee. After teaching 20 years I reverted to the old ways, started chewing tobacco, wearing farmer's caps, talking in strong nouns and verbs, going by my first name, became known for my easy courses. This led to a downfall where I had to revert to writing country stories in order to pay my bills, buy Tommy cologne, and high priced styling mousse.My latest publications include: Nonfiction - Tragedy On Greasy Ridge and Tick Ridge Faces The South published by the Jesse Stuart Foundation, Ashland, Ky. Essays -Kristin Scott Benson, Master of Bluegrass Banjo in Bluegrass Unlimited; Selected journals - Timeline, McGuffin, Now and Then, Backwoods Home; Encyclopedia of Appalachia - Waterloo Wonders, Bevo Francis.

Number of posts: 3
Email address: danny.fulks@comcast.net
Web site: http://www.facebook.com/danny.fulks

About the author: I spent thirty years working in the television industry. My approach to broadcasting stems from my experience as a newscast director, a producer of non-news programming, and a childhood background in theatre. Things don't just happen; reports are not just released;events don't just take place. Behind all of these, there is the story.

Number of posts: 3
Email address: darby97232@yahoo.com
Web site: http://www.darbybritto.com

About the author: Dave has made a career in the field of Journalism and Chamber of Commerce Management. He is one of the outstanding Chamber of Commerce Directors in this country in the 20th century. He has served as director in Greer, S.C., Hendersonville, N.C., Greenville, S.C., Jacksonville, FL, Memphis TN, Dallas, TX and for four years as president of American Chamber of Commerce Executives. Retired since 1995, he is still active worldwide as a consultant and guest speaker. Dave lives in Hendersonville, NC.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: davecooley2@mchsi.com

About the author: Deb Barshafsky was born in Tacoma, Washington, to a northern father and a German mother. As she enters her 34th year as a resident of the southern United States, she's both amazed and amused that she's still not considered a southerner by people whose family trees have deep roots in red Georgia clay. Deb has written the food column for Augusta magazine, the city magazine of Augusta, Georgia, for more than a decade, and she's completing a master of gastronomy degree from the University of Adelaide and Le Cordon Bleu. And, yes, that is a southern style 16-layer chocolate fudge cake in her profile photo. The kind with the crunchy icing that makes your teeth hurt.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: deb@bitegeist.com
Web site: http://www.bitegeist.com

About the author: Dennis McCarthy is a senior writer in the Office of Communications and Marketing at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where, among other things, he is editor in chief of Quest magazine. He also practices a little law on nights and weekends with his wife, Judy.

Number of posts: 2
Email address: dmmccarthy@utk.edu

About the author: DESIREE EVANS is a Research Associate at the Institute for Southern Studies, where she blogs at Facing South (http://www.southernstudies.org/). She is formerly a policy associate at TransAfrica Forum, where she covered issues impacting the African world. Her writing has also appeared in Alternet, Chicago Reporter, In These Times, The Indianapolis Star, and elsewhere. She holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Northwestern University and a master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: desiree@southernstudies.org
Web site: http://www.southernstudies.org/

About the author: Dindy Yokel writes for the Georgia Online News Service.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: info@dindycopr.com

About the author: Don Lively is a retired police officer and freelance writer. He lives in Shell Bluff, Georgia.

Number of posts: 2
Email address: Livelycolo@aol.com

About the author: Don O'Briant is a former book editor and reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He is the author of seven books, including Looking for Tara: The GWTW Guide to Atlanta; Travel Smart: Georgia; and Backroad Buffets & Country Cafes: A Southern Guide to Meat-and-Threes & Downhome Cooking. He lives in Lilburn, Georgia.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: cdobriant@comcast.net

About the author: Doug Cumming worked for newspapers and magazines in Raleigh, Providence and Atlanta for 26 years before getting a Ph.D. in mass communication at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2002. Since then, he has taught at Loyola University in New Orleans and Washington & Lee University, where he is now a tenured associate professor of journalism. His first book, "The Southern Press: Literary Legacies and the Challenge of Modernity," has been published by Northwestern University Press.

Number of posts: 6
Email address: cummingd@wlu.edu
Web site: http://journalism.wlu.edu/faculty/cumming.html

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Email address: eden@likethedew.com
Web site: http://www.facebook.com/edenlandow

About the author: Eleanor Ringel Cater, long-time movie critic for The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, also has been a regular contributor to CNN, MSNBC, Entertainment Weekly, Headline News and WXIA, Atlanta's NBC affiliate, and a columnist for TV Guide.

Number of posts: 24
Email address: eleanorcater@msn.com

About the author: Elliott Brack is a native Georgian and veteran newspaperman. He published the weekly Wayne County Press for 12 years; was for 13 years the vice president and general manager of Gwinnett Daily News, and for 13 years was associate publisher of the Gwinnett section of The Atlanta Journal and Constitution. He now publishes, in retirement, Web sites on Gwinnett County, http://www.gwinnettforum.com, and Georgia news, http://www.georgiaclips.com.

Number of posts: 2
Email address: elliott@brack.net
Web site: http://www.gwinnettforum.com

About the author: Arriving in the USA in late 2008, Frank Povah moved to Stamping Ground, Kentucky in mid 2009. Passionate about the written and spoken word and constantly bewildered by non-verbs and neo-nouns, Frank trained as a typesetter - though he has worked at many things - and later branched out into proofreading, writing and editing. For many years he has been copy editor, consultant and columnist with a prestigious Australian quarterly along with running his own editorial and typesetting business. His other interests are many and include traditional music, especially that of the south, folklore, natural history, and pigeons.

Number of posts: 35
Email address: flp@littlewallaby.com
Web site: http://www.littlewallaby.com

About the author: Gib Ennis is a retired sales executive whose interest in the American Civil War is based on a lifetime of reading and amateur research on the subject. He writes a column for the Daily Dunklin Democrat in Kennett, Missouri, and was a creative writing major at the University of Missouri.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: manyshanks@yahoo.com

About the author: Gita M. Smith is a former Atlanta Journal-Constitution staff writer and a proud former winner of the Stein Club’s limerick contest. She lives in Alabama with her husband, Mike Handley, and their faithful dog, Tater.

Number of posts: 11
Email address: gitasmith@charter.net
Web site: http://www.myspace.com/gitahandley

About the author: Glenn Overman writes from the heart of the Bozarts, on the fringe of Jacksonville, Florida. Sometimes he sits on Harriet Beecher Stowe's porch and speaks to her ghost.  He spent many years following the crops from state to state and honed his writer's craft on the backs of shovels in the cruel winter nights in Nebraska, at trail's end. During the winter of '68, a con on the trail told him about something called "advertising" which he worked successfully from city to city until inertial forces trapped him near the 30th parallel.  Whilst he still plies his former trade, he confesses to having lost all interest in personnel or organizational management, which makes him, in the parlance of business, a freelance consultant; hence the beard, as required by Senate Bill 3945q.  He is pleased as peaches to live in a time and place where so much rich material for commentary and ridicule practically falls from the sky like manna, but secretly wishes it were attached to hundred dollar bills, as they have been found to cure the common life.  Please do not send him fruit through the mail.

Number of posts: 4
Email address: glenn.overman@gmail.com
Web site: http:www.e-adgroup.com
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/glennoverman
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/glenn.overman
Twitter: http://twitter.com/glennoverman

About the author:

I am a United Methodist Minister who in June 2008, was placed on incapacity leave due to kidney failure.  My kidneys failed due to immusuppression medications secondary to a heart transplant in 1997. The ministry is my second career having spent 12 previous years at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta as Chief Respiratory Therapist and Technical Director of Life Support Systems at Emory University School of Medicine. I  have a wonderful wife of 45 years, two super children, and four grandchildren. My life has been exciting, challenging, and full of wonder as in my early years I was concerned with saving lives and in my later years saving souls I was graduated  from Georgia Military Academy in 1961 (Woodward Academy). I attended Emory-at-Oxford College, The University of Georgia, Georgia State University, and Emory University for postgraduate work. I received my ministry credentials through the United Methodist Church Course of Study at Emory's candler School of Theology.

My Theology is primarily Wesleyan and varies with the particular topic under discussion. I refuse to be labeled either liberal or conservative. My politics are moderate embracing what I hope is the best of all parties. I have a deep love for Christ, the Church, and the United States of America.

Number of posts: 11
Email address: jackdej@cox.net
Web site: http://www.jackdejarnette.org
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Jack-DeJarnette/1437466796

About the author: Jack Wilkinson has written about sports professionally for 37 years, but his career began in his hometown of Lynbrook, N.Y., on Long Island. His elementary school paper, the Marion Street Chatterbox, is the coolest-named paper he's ever worked for. Thank you, Mrs. Roseanne Waldstein, the school librarian and Chatterbox advisor. Jack worked at Newsday while a senior at Hofstra University, and later for the Miami News, Chicago Daily News, New York Daily News and, after moving to Atlanta in 1983, the local rag. A three-time Georgia Sportswriter of the Year, he gleefully took a buyout in June, 2007. Jack's written six books. The latest, "Of Mikes and Men -- A Lifetime of Braves Baseball," is the recently-released autobiography of co-author Pete Van Wieren. Published by Triumph Books of Chicago, "Of Mikes and Men" is now available at Borders, Barnes & Noble, Manuel's Tavern and other fine book outlets everywhere.

Number of posts: 17
Email address: jackewilkinson@gmail.com

About the author: James Hataway has a Masters degree in Religious Studies from the University of Tennessee. He joined the Grady family in 2008 to pursue a career in journalism. James is interested primarily in social and economic determinants of health. When not studying or writing stories for school, he works as a correspondent for the Athens Banner-Herald.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: jhataway@likethedew.com

About the author: Janet is a long-time Atlantan, grammar and punctuation Nazi and public relations manager whose hobby is hating Republicans. There is not enough room to list her various jobs, but she is currently happy in her position with the City of Atlanta, where she spends much of her time explaining to water/sewer customers that, if they let their toilets run, they should expect their bills to be high. Janet lives in Candler Park with her husband, Jack Wilkinson, a likethedew contributor, their dog, Jack (hey, he’s a rescue. He came with the name.) and Rosie the Cat, named, of course, for the Springsteen song. She has an inexplicable thing for the Monkees.

Number of posts: 11
Email address: janetlward@gmail.com

About the author: Jay Thompson is a long-time international flight attendant. A graduate of Wake Forest University, she also holds a master's degree from Georgia State University. She lives at St. Simons Island, Georgia.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: jaybeach1215@gmail.com

About the author: Jeff Cochran worked in advertising at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for 27 years before accepting a buy-out in the Summer of 2008. In the seventies/early eighties, he handled advertising for Peaches Records and Tapes' Southeastern and Midwestern stores. He also wrote record reviews for The Great Speckled Bird, a ground-breaking underground newspaper based in Atlanta.

Number of posts: 82
Email address: cochran44@aol.com

About the author: Jeff Rayno is a former Chatham County commissioner and now heads the Coastal Empire Constitution Party.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: JeffRayno@aol.com

Email address: jeff@likethedew.com

About the author: Jennifer Hill is the communications director at a private school in Atlanta. She is a former editor and reporter for The Atlanta Journal and Constition, where she worked in business news and features. She and her two sons live in Avondale Estates, Georgia.

Number of posts: 7
Email address: hill.jennifer@paideiaschool.org

About the author: A clinically trained psychologist, Jim had a private practice in Cobb County for almost 30 years. For the last ten years he has been a Professor of Psychology at Goddard College in Plainfield, VT, but lives in the North Georgia Mountains.

Number of posts: 21
Email address: jim.fitzgerald@windstream.net

About the author: A journalism professor at the University of Tennessee since 2006; Emory & Henry College, 2003-2006; University of Alabama, 1978-2003. Author: Writing for the Mass Media; Journalism: Who, What, When, Where, Why and How; Kill the Quarterback; The Writing Wright; (among others). Seriously: a reader, writer, gardener, beekeeper, baseball fan, Methodist

Number of posts: 1
Email address: jgstovall@gmail.com
Web site: http://writingwright.blogspot.com/

About the author: Jim Warren, a Marietta, GA resident, is a self-taught writer of essays and observational humor. He is currently working towards completion of his second book: Barefoot on Hot Asphalt. His first book of essays: Cowlicked! Rants, Remembrances, and Ruminations is available through Amazon.com, Lulu.com or by contacting the author.

Number of posts: 3
Email address: georjajim@gmail.com

About the author: Jimmy Booth, who was born in Hahira, Georgia, and who was a longtime Atlanta area journalist and public relations consultant, moved three years ago from Peachtree City, Georgia, to Dahlonega, Georgia. He and his wife Margo have become involved with some Dahlonega-based not-for-profit cultural arts organizations working to keep alive the traditional mountain music and art which are a vital part of the area's heritage. Jimmy graduated from Emory University, where he served as editor of The Emory Wheel. During his journalistic career, Jimmy worked as publisher or editor of several Georgia weekly and small daily newspapers, and he was a section editor for The Atlanta Journal and Constitution.

Number of posts: 8
Email address: jimmy@jimmybooth.com
Web site: http://www.jimmybooth.com

About the author: Jingle Davis, who lives in Athens, Georgia, has been a journalist for 25 years, freelancing for The New York Times, Sports Illustrated and other national and regional newspapers and magazines. She operated the coastal bureau of The Atlanta Journal and Constitution for about a decade before moving to Atlanta to work as a metro reporter. She became a metro editor in 2003, first editing three weekly zoned editions of the paper (City Life Buckhead, City Life Midtown and South Metro), then moving to metro editing. She served as assistant city editor and was acting city editor before taking a buyout retirement offer from the paper in June, 2007.

Number of posts: 8
Email address: jingledavis@bellsouth.net

About the author: Extensive experience as a reporter, line editor, section editor and assignment editor. Have covered and directed coverage of government, politics, law and courts and crime and reported and edited articles on the arts and entertainment, business and other topics. Regularly designated rewrite man to combine multiple feeds during breaking news events. Self-starter with a good eye for stories. Have written, directed or edited watchdog reports, investigative reports, narrative stories, Web bursts and briefs, multiple-part stories and stand-alone features. Have taken management training courses, including courses on hiring staff, and have managed experienced reporters and rookies, directed “mobile journalists“ (known as "mojos“) and worked with writers based in distant bureaus or filing from the road. Specialties Coverage of courts, the law and crime. Coverage of the arts. Breaking news. Personality profiles and human interest stories.

Number of posts: 11
Email address: joehearle@excite.com

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Email address: JShifalo@likethedew.com

About the author: Joel Groover is an Atlanta-based freelance writer whose past glories include writing obits at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, enduring a stint as a beat reporter at The Marietta Daily Journal and taking in some culture as a senior editor at Art & Antiques. He earned his journalism degree at The University of Georgia.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: artwriter@bellsouth.net
Web site: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1140368257

About the author: Joey Ledford is a veteran journalist, who for more than 20 years was a writer and editor for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He also served as a writer and editor for United Press International for eight years.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: joeyledford@bellsouth.net

About the author: John Dembowski is a Construction Site Manager. He grew up and lives again in Warner Robins, Georgia, after stints in Savannah, Athens, and Brunswick. He and his wife Vanessa are empty-nesters, who enjoy Georgia's beaches and mountains and the antique trail between the two.

Number of posts: 4
Email address: johnd@piedmontconstructiongroup.com

About the author: John Hickman is associate professor of comparative politics at Berry College in Rome, Georgia. His published work on electoral politics, media, and international affairs has appeared in Asian Perspective, American Politics Research, Comparative Strategy, Contemporary South Asia, Contemporary Strategy, Current Politics and Economics of Asia, East European Quarterly, JOunral of Third World Studies, Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Political Science, Review of Religious Research, Women & Politics, and Yamanashigakuin Law Review. He may be reached at jhickman@berry.edu.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: jhickman@berry.edu

About the author: John Manasso was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1972 to native New Yorker parents. Five years later, his family moved to Massachusetts, but never gave up its sports-rooting allegiances. As a result, John grew up a fan of the Yankees, Giants, Rangers and Knicks, like his father did, only in hostile territory. In some ways, he grew up the anti-New Englander: his parents couldn’t ski or skate like his neighbors and he passionately detested the Red Sox. So when the ponds froze over in winter and his friends laced up their skates to play hockey, he could only wait for the next day in the hope they would opt to play in the street. John went to American University in Washington, D.C., graduating with degrees in print journalism and history. His first job was taking high school box scores at The Washington Post. He worked at The Post for three years, covering high school sports, Navy and Georgia Mason University basketball and working on the copy desk. In 1997, he left for a two-year internship with the Philadelphia Inquirer. In 1999, he joined the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and began covering the Atlanta Thrashers in 2003. In 2007, he left for the Atlanta Business Chronicle, a tenure that lasted until April 2009. He is the author of “A Season of Loss,” a book about the death of Thrashers player Dan Snyder and his family’s journey through grief. He and his wife Christie have two children, Joey, 7, and Samantha, 4.

Number of posts: 3
Email address: john_manasso@yahoo.com

About the author: John Sugg is executive editor of Georgia Online News Service (GONSO). He has more than 30 years of journalism experience. He held senior writing and editing positions at The Miami Herald, The Atlanta Constitution, The Palm Beach Post, American Lawyer, and the Creative Loafing group. Sugg's awards include honors from Investigative Reporters and Editors and the Society of Professional Journalists.

Number of posts: 2
Email address: john.sugg@georgiaonlinenews.org
Web site: http://www.georgiaonlinenews.com

About the author: Award-winning, published author expertise complemented by over twenty years of professional communications responsibilities as a marketing and sales executive in consumer goods and commercial industries. Proven track record with Fortune 500 companies as well as with medium-size firms encompassing a variety of products, including those of Georgia-Pacific, Kimberly-Clark and Stanley Works. John has a B.A. in English from Fairfield University and an MBA in Marketing from the University of Hartford.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: john@Atlantafreelancewriter.com

About the author: Formerly Senior Editor at Atlanta’s Longstreet Press, for the past 10 years John Yow has been a freelance book writer with clients representing a stupefyingly diverse range of interests, from the global economy, to the transportation industry, to golf. Increasingly inclined to pursue his own interests (literature and birds among them), Yow granted himself a sabbatical to produce The Armchair Birder: Discovering the Secret Lives of Familiar Birds. He and his wife Dede live in the woods in northeast Paulding County. Beloved daughter Ruthie, like the birds of spring, has flown north.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: jyow@likethedew.com

About the author: Jon Sinton is an Atlanta-based serial media entrepreneur and writer. He was the founding president of Air America Radio, and currently syndicates The Mike Malloy Show (based in Atlanta), GRITtv with Laura Flanders, and Ring of Fire with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Mike Papantonio and David Bender.

Number of posts: 5
Email address: jsinton@mindspring.com

About the author: Jonna Pattillo is a photographer, writer, and producer. She is from Atlanta.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: Jonnapattillo@bellsouth.net

About the author: For many years, a newsman with The Richmond Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Virginia, now retired. Reared in Paris and Atlanta and now lives with his artist-author wife Fran in the mountains of north Georgia, where he is learning to appreciate the wilds that surround them. Keeps the demons at bay hiking in nearby national forests and working an organic vegetable and flower garden.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: jgatins@gmail.com
Web site: http://josephgatins.blogspot.com/

About the author: Judy McCarthy, an attorney, lives on a farm in Loudon County, Tennessee, with her husband, Dennis, and their beagle, Lilly. She is currently working on a memoir about Southern culture.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: Judy@mccarthyandmccarthy.com

About the author: A long-time leader in the civil rights movement, Julian Bond was a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center. From 1998 to 2010, he served as chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Earlier he was elected — first to the House and then to the Senate — in the Georgia General Assembly, where he served for two decades.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: jbond@likethedew.com

About the author: I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, into a family of storytellers and writers. Through crazy turns, I ended up in suburban New Jersey, married to a hardworking photographer and raising two fantastic kids. I sell mattresses. I have a lot of stories to tell.

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Email address: patti@greatergoodcommunication.com

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Email address: kgreer2@utk.edu

About the author: Born and raised in Atlanta, with degrees from UGA and UT Knoxville, Kate never lived above the Mason-Dixon line. That is, until she moved to Belgium. She now lives in the Belgian Ardennes, near Germany and The Netherlands, in an area where three cultures clash and co-exist. She used to have a stress-filled life, living in Washington DC and working as a management consultant all over the US and Canada. About 9 years ago, Kate and her husband Dan quit their jobs and moved to Europe. Now they teach English as a second language to business people there. They went there for two or three years. They're still here. Kate loves to cook, to travel, to paint and to write. She tries to do all of those as often as she can, and she shares tales of her life there in her blog. Kate says, "My blog is called 'Serendipity'. That pretty much sums up our life here in Belgium: serene with a little ‘dipity’ added. You’ll find here tales of our life as we sometimes struggle with other languages and other ways. You'll also find some paintings. And more than a few recipes, because I love to cook. My husband loves to eat. Perfect!" You can find her blog at http://serendipity-kate.blogspot.com/

Number of posts: 13
Email address: kate_and_dan@yahoo.com
Web site: http://serendipity-kate.blogspot.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1142396273

About the author: An Atlanta native, Kathleen Harbin studied at Auburn University and the University of Georgia, where she graduated with a degree in French. Also trained in German, she spent three decades as a flight attendant, mainly flying international routes, for Delta Air Lines.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: harbink@bellsouth.net

About the author: Owner at Gegan & Associates, an Atlanta based marketing and advertising firm.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: k.gegan@gmail.com

About the author: Kathryn Hoffman is a former Vanderbilt University Commodore.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: stillagroovychick@hotmail.com

About the author: Keith Graham lives in Atlanta most of the time and on St. Simons Island on Georgia’s coast the rest. Like so many Southerners, Keith was named for a blind piano player, who is now little remembered, and he spent his earliest years living with his parents in the back rooms of a small-town Georgia radio station. Later, he moved to several other states, including North Carolina twice, before returning to Georgia. He has worked for a series of newspapers, including The Atlanta Journal and Constitution from 1979 to 2007.

Number of posts: 77
Email address: keith@likethedew.com
Web site: http://likethedew.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/GSFish

About the author: Ken Edelstein blogs regularly at http://cultofgreen.com, the Web site where he is editor and publisher. Likethedew.com recommends that our readers check out this new source of alternative journalism in Atlanta.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: ken@atlantaunsheltered.com
Web site: http://cultofgreen.com

About the author: A communications, public affairs and corporate reputation professional with broad strategic communications experience within major public companies in the consumer products, environmental services and utilities sectors.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: kchaldin@mindspring.com
Web site: http://www.thinkgreen.com/

About the author: Kevin Duffy is a former reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he worked for 25 years before recently accepting a buyout offer. His last assignment was to cover the housing meltdown. Kevin and his wife, CNN editor Moni Basu, have lived in Atlanta's Inman Park neighborhood for 12 years.

Number of posts: 5
Email address: candlerarts@gmail.com

About the author: Kip Burke, the news editor and columnist at The News-Reporter in Washington, Georgia, has been a writer, newspaper and magazine editor, photojournalist and ghostwriter in his 30-year career.

Number of posts: 2
Email address: kipburke@gmail.com

About the author: Kirsten Barr, the eldest and most conservative daughter of “Like the Dew “ co-founder Lee Leslie, is a native of Greenville, South Carolina and currently resides in the state’s holiest city, Charleston. After matriculating from Miss Porter’s School in Farmington, Connecticut, she vowed to permanently reside below the Mason Dixon line. This limited her opportunities for higher education; however, she did obtain a Bachelor of Science Degree in Natural Resource Policy from the University of Georgia and a Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina (with honors). She is a partner in the firm of Trask & Howell (http://www.trask-howell.com/), where she practices workers’ compensation defense and frequently lectures on the esoteric nuances of workers’ compensation law (occasionally by invitation).

Number of posts: 1
Email address: kirstiebird@comcast.net
Web site: http://www.trask-howell.com/

About the author: I’m just a plateaued-out plain person with too much time on his hands fighting the never ending lingual battle with windmills for truth, justice and the American way or something like that. Here are some reader comments on my writing: “Enough with the cynicism. One doesn’t have to be Pollyanna to reject the sky is falling fatalism of Lee Leslie’s posts.” “You moron.” “Again, another example of your simple-minded, scare-mongering, label-baiting method of argumentation that supports the angry left’s position.” “Ah, Lee, you traffic in the most predictable, hackneyed leftist rhetoric that brought us to the current state of political leadership.” “You negative SOB! You destroyed all my hope, aspiration, desperation, even.” “Don’t you LIBERALS realize what this COMMIE is talking about is SOCIALISM?!?!?!” “Thank you for wonderful nasty artful toxic antidote to this stupidity in the name of individual rights.” “I trust you meant “bastard” in the truest father-less sense of the word.” “That’s the first time I ran out of breath just from reading!” “You helped me hold my head a little higher today.” “Makes me cry every time I read it.” “Thanks for the article. I needed something to make me laugh this mourning.” “If it weren’t so sad I would laugh.” “Amen, brother.”

Number of posts: 154
Email address: pundito@likethedew.com
Web site: http://leslieevanscreative.com
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/leeleslie
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Lee-Leslie/766044783
Twitter: http://twitter.com/sleeleslie

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Email address: cwohlwen@utk.edu

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Email address: likethedew@likethedew.com
Web site: http://likethedew.com

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Email address: KSUprof@AOL.com

About the author: I am the publisher of Southern Bookman, a blog that covers literature and writing, and Chasing the Blues, which looks at sports, culture, music, politics, film and theater. My Southern Bookman interviews with well-known writers draw praise from the literary community, and my Chasing the Blues posts are also lauded by professonal journalists and academics, as well as general readers. I also frequently freelance, most recently for the Buckhead Reporter community newspaper. I have also done work for Atlanta Intown, Know Atlanta, the Daily Report and Whitman Publishing. During a 26-year career at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, I found success in a variety of fields, including local news, sports, business, features and editorial.

Number of posts: 4
Email address: LMayeux@likethedew.com
Web site: http://louismayeux.typepad.com/
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/louismayeux
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/louis.mayeux

About the author: About the author, Lovell Allan Jones was born in Baton Rouge, La and was among the first African Americans to integrate school. He was also among the first undergraduates to integrate Louisiana State University, In 1968 he moved to California to continue his education, getting his Ph.D. with an emphasis in Tumor Biology & Endocrinology in 1977. He is now the director of the Congressionally Mandated Center for Research on Minority Health at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas and co-founder of the Intercultural Cancer Council, the nation’s largest multicultural health policy organization. While maintaining as active scientific program to change the nation’s approach to research dealing with underserved populations, Dr. Jones started writing essays on societal issues and the lack of progress in closing the health and health care gap almost two decades ago. His essays, on FOOD FOR THOUGHT, have appeared in a number of publications, first appearing on his personal email list serve to over 2000 of his “friends.” Here is what WEB Dubois' Great Grandson said after reading this FOOD FOR THOUGHT: When my great-grandfather said in 1903 that "The problem of the 20th Century is the problem of the color-line." he was clearly stating the exact point that Dr. Jones makes. It was so clear to him that the prejudices rampant in America during that time were so deeply ingrained that they represented a barrier worthy of being considered in terms that would require, at minimum, a century to resolve. When I'm asked about Grandpa's quote today I tell people that the number has changed to the 21st, but the problem seems to be equally as intractable now, as intractable now, as then. He went on to write many things about the "color-line" and "The Veil" over his 95 years. One that I find most succinct and touching is attached. It comes from his 1920 book "Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil". I think it lends insight and historical perspective to Dr. Jones' statement" ...that slavery is and continues to be a source of evil. An evil that we truly have never addressed. For it prevails in our biases, those subconscious innocent biases that play out on a daily basis."

Number of posts: 3
Email address: lajones@mdanderson.org

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Email address: lucysullivan@charter.net

About the author: Maggie Lee specializes in quality of life topics, Atlanta's international communities and general reporting. She covers Georgia economic development and the Chinese community as a stringer for China Daily and chronicles life in Georgia's most diverse county for the DeKalb Champion.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: maggie@bottleofink.com

About the author: Maisha was born and reared in South Louisiana. She is a mother of three and the author of one book, SOUL KISS (available at http://i-proclaimbookstore.com/soulkiss.html). Maisha is currently working on several projects, including a spoken word album which should be ready by February 2010.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: ishamariablanca@yahoo.com
Web site: http://sacredheartofawoman.blogspot.com

About the author:

Mandy lives in Lexington, South Carolina, is a contributing writer for the Food & Drink section and is currently working on her first cookbook. Mandy is an award winning recipe writer and judges regional cook-offs and other culinary contests.

Number of posts: 27
Email address: mandy.r.rivers@gmail.com
Web site: http://www.mandyrivers.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/mandyriverscom/134923349869992

About the author: Margi Ness is an Ambassador for the Community Transportation Association of America's National Resource Center. Because of her life-long career in public transportation, Margi was particularly interested in India's transportation network. Margi is a former resident of Atlanta who currently lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: marginess@me.com

About the author: Mark Johnson leads a dual life. He is a professional mentalist who performs mind reading, telepathy, clairvoyance and ESP demonstrations for parties, banquets, trade shows, convention events, sales meetings and more. You can learn more at www.MarkJohnsonSpeaker.com. He is also a writer. He is the author of three books: "Living The Dream," the story of the first ten years of FedEx; "Superman, Hairspray, and the Greatest Goat On Earth," a collection of mostly true stories;, and "Yes Ma'am, You're Right: The Essential Rules For Living With A Woman." His fourth book, "The Doughnut Chef, Santa Claus, and the Wonder Dog Of Marshall, Missouri" will, hopefully, be out soon. His day job is as a corporate speech writer and presentation consultant. Mark has traveled around the world twice but has never been to Burlington, Vermont. He is the only person he knows who was once a card-carrying member of the International Brotherhood of Ventriloquists. He is the father of three, and the grandfather of five. All offspring are demonstrably perfect. He lives in Smyrna with his wife Rebecca (aka The Goddess) and two dogs: Molly, an elderly and arrogant Scottish terrier; and, George, a lovable rescue dog who has the IQ of horseradish.

Number of posts: 36
Email address: mejgeorgia@comcast.net
Web site: http://www.MarkJohnsonSpeaker.com
Twitter: mejgeorgia

About the author: The senior director of the alumni association of Emory University in Atlanta, Martha W. Fagan has more than 30 years experience in alumni relations, development and career advisement.

Number of posts: 4
Email address: martha.fagan@emory.edu

About the author: Mary Civille was born in Los Angeles; rumor has it that a very young Robert Mitchum helped her mom get checked in at the hospital because her dad had to park the car! When he was called back to Active Service in 1951, she became an Army Brat. Moving is still in her blood, every move an adventure, but she just can’t seem to leave Atlanta. Four seasons will do that. According to a quiz, she’s more Georgian than most “natives.” She’s not; just lived here a long time and knows all the right answers. Says “Y’all” correctly – always plural, NEVER singular – learned that in Kansas. Now retired, she worked as a librarian/archivist at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for 29 years and counts some of the most professional journalists in the world as friends (or at least acquaintances).

Number of posts: 2
Email address: coquies@earthlink.net

About the author: Mary Kay Andrews is the pseudonym of former Atlanta Journal and Constitution reporter Kathy Hogan Trocheck. Since leaving the Journal-Constitution in 1991, she has found gainful employment by authoring 17 novels, including the Callahan Garrity mysteries written under her own name, and seven novels as Mary Kay Andrews, including The New York Times best-selling HISSY FIT, SAVANNAH BREEZE, BLUE CHRISTMAS and DEEP DISH, all published by HarperCollins. A native Floridian, she is a diplomate of the Maas Brothers Department Store School of Charm and The University of Georgia.

Number of posts: 6
Email address: ktrocheck@aol.com
Web site: http://www.marykayandrews.com/

About the author: Mary Lee was previously a writer and editor for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Macon Telegraph and News. She is currently self-unemployed.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: mcl47@att.net
Web site: http://likethedew.com

About the author: Matthew Wright, originally from Connecticut, is a blogger and budding freelance writer. He is heavily interested in politics and public policy. His aim is to encourage real debate between real people. Real change begins on the grassroots level, not in the media. He attended the University of Hartford in West Hartford,Connecticut, and now makes his home in Atlanta, Georgia. He also makes a mean lasagna.

Number of posts: 30
Email address: wordsmithw@gmail.com
Web site: http://wrightandleftreport.wordpress.com

About the author: Partnered with her husband, Meg Gerrish has combined their love of a specific social beverage and her compulsion to give opinions whether anyone asks or not into the website Unoaked Chardonnay. Their review approach is unorthodox, compared to most, but their passion for finding and trying all the unoaked Chardonnays available is unwavering. It’s a mission: “Our hobby, our job, someone has to do it.” Meg worked many years for an ad agency that became wildly famous as soon as she retired. She is currently working on a novel, as are most people.

Number of posts: 13
Email address: meg@unoakedchardonnay.com
Web site: http://www.unoakedchardonnay.com

About the author: A veteran of the marketing and advertising business, Melinda Ennis-Roughton is the principal and owner of an Atlanta-based marketing firm called Melworks Inc. 

She previously served as executive director and chief marketing officer for the Atlanta branding initiative, chief global marketing officer for Church's Chicken, managing partner with Ender Partners Advertising in Atlanta, as well as a senior vice president at Tausche Martin Lonsdorf and Fitzergerald+CO. advertising agencies in Atlanta. 

From 1983-93, Ennis-Roughton held senior marketing roles for Arby's Restaurants, where she became the first female vice president and senior vice president of marketing. 

She is a 25-year resident of Atlanta and is married to Bert Roughton, a managing editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Number of posts: 10
Email address: melworksinc@bellsouth.net

About the author: Michael J. Solender is a recent corporate refugee whose opinion and satire has been featured in The Richmond Times Dispatch, The Winston-Salem Journal, and Richmond Style Weekly. He writes a weekly Neighborhoods column for The Charlotte Observer and is a contributor to Charlotte ViewPoint. His micro-fiction has been featured online at Bull Men’s Fiction, Calliope Nerve, Danse Macabre, Dogzplot, Gloom Cupboard, Full of Crow, Pangur Ban Party and others. He blogs here: http://notfromhereareyou.blogspot.com/

Number of posts: 13
Email address: tknodcmn@infionline.net
Web site: http://notfromhereareyou.blogspot.com/
Twitter: mjsolender

About the author: I am sixty-one years old, married with three grown children. I have a B. A. from Birmingham Southern College and a Master's in City Planning from Georgia Tech. I have worked in SC State government for over a decade leaving as the Deputy Executive Director of the State Budget and Control Board, the state's administrative agency. I have owned the Fontane Company since 1984 and am the managing member of viscerality.com.llc (www.viscerality.com) amd technology management, marketing and consulting company.

Number of posts: 52
Email address: mikecopeland@mac.com
Web site: http://www.viscerality.com

About the author: Mike Cox currently writes a weekly column in South Carolina for the Columbia Star called "It's Not a Criticism, It's an Observation." It is obvious from the first few words Mike doesn't have a journalistic background. He spent one lifetime raising a family and working in corporate America. When he retired in 2002, he began to write. He currently has two published books; Finding Daddy Cox, and October Saturdays. His columns have won three South Carolina Press Association awards since 2003. Mike has three sons and two grandchildren and lives in Irmo, Sc, just outside of Columbia.

Number of posts: 25
Email address: mwc423@bellsouth.net

About the author: With roots in Mississippi and Alabama, Mike Williams worked for newspapers across the South for 27 years. After earning a degree in American Studies at Amherst College, he worked for Alabama newspapers in Baldwin County, Montgomery and Birmingham, followed by stints at the Miami Herald and The Atlanta Constitution. His last job was as a foreign correspondent for the Cox Newspaper chain. He now splits his time between Florida and the North Carolina mountains. His interests include race relations, history, Southern folk culture and the environment.

Number of posts: 19
Email address: mikew3000@gmail.com

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Email address: mls1962@gmail.com

About the author: Monica Smith writes Hannah's Blog. Born in Germany, she came to the United States as a child, living first in California, then after an interval in Chile, in New York. Married to a retired professor at the University of Florida, where she lived for 17 years, she moved to St. Simons Island, Georgia, in 1993 and now divides her time between Georgia and New Hampshire. (New Hampshire, she says, is always interesting during a presidential election.) She and her husband have three children and five grandchildren. Ms. Smith says she "learned long ago that I am not a good team player when I got hired at the Library of Congress, fresh out of college with a degree in political science and proficiency in four foreign languages, to 'edit' library cards and informed my supervisor that if she was going to insist I punch the clock exactly on time, my productivity was going to fall from being the highest to being the same as everyone else's. The supervisor opted to assign me to another building where there was no time-clock. After I had the first of our three children, I decided a paycheck wasn't worth the hassle."

Number of posts: 14
Email address: hannah@smith-family.com
Web site: http://hannah.smith-family.com/

About the author: Myra Blackmon lives an eclectic life in Athens, where she retired from her own public relations firm. With a master of education degree she finished 36 years after her first degree, she does a little freelance instructional design and is enjoying a gig as COO for a start-up that produces educational content for The Man. She writes a weekly column for the Athens Banner-Herald. Mostly, though, she writes, cooks, gardens, grandmothers and dabbles in politics while she seeks the next big adventure.

Number of posts: 10
Email address: myra@mbpr.com

About the author: Mother, Grandmother, Sister, Friend, Avid Reader, Lover of Movies, Atlanta transplant by way of the West coast and Mississippi.

Number of posts: 2
Email address: njpuck@comcast.net

About the author: Nancy Robinson and Katie Hogin, who contributed the photos for this story, are seniors in journalism at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. A different version of the story appeared in Scoop, the student-produced magazine of the UTK School of Journalism and Electronic Media.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: nrobins9@utk.edu

About the author: Nancy Rogers, a graduate of UGA and GIT, is volunteer communications chair for Earth Hour Atlanta 2010 and founder of Green Earth PR Network.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: nancy@boldfacepr.com
Web site: http://www.greenearthpr.net
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/nancyrogerspr
Twitter: http://twitter.com/GreenEarthPR

About the author: Neill Herring was born in Dalton, GA, in 1947. Attended public schools there, and got a BA from Georgia State in History in 1969. Failed draft physical because of poor eyesight. Worked in anti-Vietnam war movement, wrote for Great Speckled Bird, Atlanta underground weekly, worked as carpenter for many years while also working to oppose Southern Company overexpansion of electric plant investment at ratepayers' expense. Followed Southern Company to the Georgia General Assembly and became an environmental lobbyist there in 1980. Lives in Jesup, has two daughters, 24 and 19, spends the winters in Atlanta to take advantage of the cold, wet weather, and the steam heat of the State Capitol.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: neillherring@earthlink.net

Number of posts: 6
Email address: skeithgraham@aol.com
Web site: http://likethedew.com

About the author: Nikki Gardner writes about art, food, and story on her blog artandlemons.com (http://www.artandlemons.com/). As a freelance writer, she has written for American Book Review, Edible Pioneer Valley, VenusZine.com (http://venuszine.com/), Verse Magazine, Shelburne Falls Independent, and The Daring Kitchen among others.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: artandlemons@yahoo.com
Web site: http://www.artandlemons.com/

About the author: Noel Holston, originally from Laurel, Miss., is a freelance journalist, songwriter, storyteller and actor who lives in Athens, Ga., with his wife, singer-songwriter Marty Winkler. In a previous life, he was the TV critic at Newsday in New York and, before that, a critic and feature writer for the Minneapolis Star Tribune and The Orlando Sentinel.

Number of posts: 12
Email address: nholston@uga.edu

About the author: Patsy Dickey is author of the novel "BellCat & PigBoy." She was born in Dade County Florida, and was reared in the mid-western traditions of Anderson, Indiana. Always given to Gothic dreams, she traveled back to her Southern roots on the engine of marriage to a native Atlantan; there she fell in love with Southern reality. From that rhapsody, and experiencing the South as an adult after World War II, she found Washington Street, the ancestral place of BellCat & PigBoy.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: patsyhdickey@bellsouth.net
Web site: http://patsydickey.com/

About the author: Former AJC staff writer, frazzled mom, compulsive drinker of Diet Coke, wife of Yankee fan, native of Mississippi, resident of Avondale Estates. Proud of all of the above, except the D.C. Gotta kick that someday.

Number of posts: 2
Email address: pattighezzi@hotmail.com

About the author: Pete Van Wieren retired in 2008 after a 43-year career as a sportscaster. "The Professor" is best known for his 33-year stint as a play-by-play voice of the Atlanta Braves. An 11-time winner of the Georgia Sportscaster of the Year Award, he was inducted into the Braves Hall of Fame in 2004. Pete and his wife, Elaine, reside in Alpharetta, Georgia. Jack Wilkinson has written about sports professionally for 37 years. A three-time Georgia Sportswriter of the Year, he has written six books.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: pete@likethedew.com

Number of posts: 2
Email address: pturnbull@likethedew.com

About the author: Phil Gast is a writer-editor living in the Atlanta area.

Number of posts: 11
Email address: philipgast@gmail.com

About the author: I'm a full-time independent public radio producer based in Atlanta. I didn't start out this way, but I'm having a ball. My stories appear regularly on WABE in Atlanta and on the state public radio network, Georgia Public Broadcasting, as well as on NPR's Weekend Edition, Marketplace, Studio360, and The World and Tablet.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: pgraitc@mac.com
Web site: http://www.philipgraitcer.com

About the author: Phyllis Alesia Perry is a writer and editor. Born in Atlanta and raised in Tuskegee, Alabama, she earned a degree in journalism from the University of Alabama and spent 16 years working as an editor and reporter for Southern newspapers, including The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She is the author of two novels, “Stigmata” and “A Sunday in June.” Currently, she serves as Communications Coordinator for Men Stopping Violence, a nonprofit social justice organization that educates and inspires men to work to end violence against women.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: phyllis@menstoppingviolence.org
Web site: http://www.menstoppingviolence.org

About the author: Hard-charging salesman by day, Piney Woods Pete stays up late into the foggy night to render words.

Number of posts: 47
Email address: piney@likethedew.com

About the author: R. P. Singletary is a native of the South Carolina Lowcountry, a former newspaper reporter, a graduate of Wofford College (Spartanburg, SC), and a current resident of Atlanta, GA.

Number of posts: 6
Email address: rpsingl@yahoo.com

About the author: Randy Schiltz is a Fly Fishing Instructor, NSCA Level 1 Sporting Clays Instructor, outdoor industry product rep for several outdoor manufacturers, avid outdoorsman, father of 3 girls and husband to 1 patient wife. He was born in Decatur, Georgia and now resides in Cumming, but is often deep in the north Georgia mountains or standing in a river in pursuit of trout.

Number of posts: 2
Email address: randyschiltz@yahoo.com
Web site: http://www.facebook.com/randyschiltz

About the author: Raymond L. Atkins resides in Rome, Georgia. His stories have been published in Christmas Stories from Georgia, The Lavender Mountain Anthology, The Blood and Fire Review, The Old Red Kimono, Long Island Woman, and Savannah Magazine. His humorous column —"South of the Etowah" — appears in The Rome News-Tribune. His industrial maintenance column — "The Fundamentals" — appears in Maintenance Technology Magazine. His humorous column — "And So It Goes" — appears in Memphis Downtowner Magazine. His first novel, "The Front Porch Prophet," was published by Medallion Press in June of 2008 to critical acclaim and earned the 2009 Georgia Author of the Year Award for First Novel. His second novel, "Sorrow Wood," was released in June 2009 by Medallion Press and has been nominated for the 2010 Georgia Author of the Year Award for Fiction. Both are available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other fine booksellers. His third novel, "Camp Redemption," will be released in August, 2011.

Number of posts: 34
Email address: raymondlatkins@aol.com
Web site: http://www.raymondlatkins.com

About the author: Reagan Walker is a former Sunday Editor of The Atlanta Journal and Constitution. A veteran writer and editor, she was an award-winning food writer and has covered other beats ranging from education to the war on terrorism to immigration.

Number of posts: 4
Email address: reaganwalker@gmail.com

About the author: Robert Coram is the author of seven novels and five works of non-fiction. This summer he will finish his 13th book, "Brute: the Life and Times of General Victor Krulak" which will be published in 2010 by Little, Brown & Company. He has written for The New Yorker, Esquire, Washington Monthly, and many other national and regional magazines. He taught journalism at Emory for 12 years. In the 1960s Coram was a reporter for the Atlanta Journal and in the early 1980s wrote for the Atlanta Constitution.

Number of posts: 2
Email address: rcoram@bellsouth.net
Web site: http://www.robertcoram.com

About the author: I grew up in Augusta, Ga., where I attended Boys' Catholic High. After a stint in the Navy, I attended the University of Georgia, majoring in English (Class of '61). I began my (wholly unexpected) journalism career on the old Augusta Herald, an evening paper, and went to work for The Constitution in, I think, 1976. I left in Sept. '82 to write The Great American Novel. That goal has proved remarkably elusive, but my first attempt (Striking Out, in 1991) was nominated for the PEN/Hemingway Award and my second (Atlanta Blues, in 2004) contended for an Edgar Award. But stay tuned: more are in the pipeline. I now teach writing courses at the University of South Carolina.

Number of posts: 3
Email address: boblamb@hotmail.com
Web site: http://robtlamb.author.googlepages.com

About the author: Robert M. Williams, Jr. publishes newspapers in Blackshear, Alma, Folkston, McRae and Forsyth, Georgia and lives in Blackshear.

Number of posts: 2
Email address: rwilliams@theblacksheartimes.com
Web site: http://www.theblacksheartimes.com
AIM screen name: southfire001

About the author: Robert Mashburn is an American expatriate living in Abu Dhabi, a native Floridian and long-time Atlantan out to discover a new land of sun and sand. He may be 7,500 miles from home, but his heart is where it has always been – in the South. He blogs regularly on his experiences at: http://www.abudhabido.blogspot.com

Number of posts: 5
Email address: rmashburn2@gmail.com
Web site: http://www.abudhabido.blogspot.com

About the author: An aspiring television and screenplay writer from Atlanta.

Number of posts: 3
Email address: tafrka@bellsouth.net

About the author: Ron Feinberg is a veteran journalist who has worked for daily newspapers across the Southeast, including the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville, Fla. and the Charlotte Observer in Charlotte, N.C. He recently retired from The Atlanta Journal Constitution where he had been an editor since 1979. He was the news editor for The Atlanta Journal before it was folded into The Atlanta Constitution in the mid-1980s, then news editor for The Constitution. In the mid-1990s he helped create the AJC's Faith & Values section and served as its first editor

Number of posts: 12
Email address: ronfeinberg@bellsouth.net

About the author: Ron Taylor was born and raised in Georgia and worked more than 40 years at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as a reporter and editor and as an online producer for ajc.com and AccessAtlanta. He served for a time as the newspaper's regional editor, overseeing coverage of the South. He is co-author, with Dr. Leonard Ray Teel, of INTO THE NEWSROOM: AN INTRODUCTION TO JOURNALISM and has conducted workshops in the Middle East on feature writing.

Number of posts: 80
Email address: Ron@LikeTheDew.com
Web site: http://www.facebook.com/jrontaylor

About the author: As a fourth generation southern artist living on Saint Simons Island, my daily work commute consists of walking out the back door, past the koi pond and bird feeders, through the garden and into a very special place - my slightly skewed studio. I’m joined by a host of eager, four-legged “studio assistants” ready to greet another day. A full time potter since 1997, I continue to stretch the clay to new extremes as my signature style of hand built ceramics evolves. With depictions of plants, animals, fish and human forms, often united in liberating ways, my art is rooted in and inspired by the natural world. Using several different hand building techniques, I create both sculptural and functional works that often combine incongruous themes within the same piece. My family’s creative influence has played a huge role in my life. Clay and dirt are as inbedded in my soul as in my fingernails. With family art decorating our home and gardens, my husband’s mandolin music ringing throughout the house and now our daughter in the process of making her artistic mark, I count myself very fortunate to come from a family whose creativity continues to roll from one generation to the next.

Number of posts: 18
Email address: rgriggsclayart@gmail.com
Web site: http://rosemarygriggsclayart.blogspot.com/

About the author: A Rock Hill, SC native and 1985 graduate of The Citadel, Sam Morton is co-author of five fiction anthologies. He holds bachelors and masters degrees in English. He is a member of The Inkplots, a group of published writers and authors active in South Carolina’s vibrant literary experience. His past occupations include a 12 year-stint as a robbery/ homicide detective for the Richland County Sheriff’s Department in Columbia, SC, a ten-year career as a professional wrestler, and one long week as the blade changer on the potato cutting machine at the Frito Lay plant in Charlotte, NC He is a freelance writer for a host of national and regional periodicals. He resides in Columbia with his wife and two children. By Sam Morton · Betrayed · Osporeni · Death Match · Disavowed · Ramblings Co-Authored · Heat of the Moment · Inkplots: Random Acts of Writing · Naughty and Nice · Buck Naked Unitarians · Black & Blue & Read All Over

Number of posts: 2
Email address: sammortonsbooks@yahoo.com
Web site: http://www.sammorton.com/

About the author: Saralyn Chesnut was the first director and founder of the Office of LGBT Life at Emory.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: slchesnut@gmail.com

About the author: Scott Anna is a writer and artist in Blairsville, Ga. His Web site is www.scottanna.com.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: scottan59@yahoo.com
Web site: http://www.scottanna.com

Number of posts: 1
Email address: sharon.mriley@gmail.com

About the author: Sheila Nungesser is a native of Asheville, NC and has degrees from UNC and GSU. After working as a teacher and technical writer for several years, she whimsically applied for a position at Delta Air Lines, learned French, and flew internationally for the rest of her career. Recently retired, she has traded her wings for horses. She and her husband Phil are designing a horse farm near Asheville where she hopes to prove Thomas Wolfe wrong: that you can go home again.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: snungesser@comcast.net

About the author: A journalist and editor for more than 30 years, I live in Watkinsville, Georgia, and now write mostly about the natural world, publishing on my website and on BirdingNotes.com, a blog.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: sigridsanders@gmail.com
Web site: http://www.sigridsanders.com/

About the author: Sonya Collins is a health and science writer.  Currently pursuing a masters in health and medical journalism at the University of Georgia, she holds bachelors and masters degrees in creative writing as well.  An avid traveler and fluent speaker of Portuguese, Sonya has freelanced as a translator and interpreter and written extensively about her life abroad.  This summer she is writing for Yale Medicine magazine.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: partnerup@togetherwecandobetter.com
Web site: http://www.togetherwecandobetter.com/index.html

About the author: Steve Krodman lives in the steaming suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife and cat. He is partial to good food, fine wine, tasteful literature, and Ridiculous Poetry. But, most importantly, he has translated the Mr. Ed theme song into four languages.

Number of posts: 27
Email address: elisson1@aol.com
Web site: http://cheeseaisle.blogspot.com

About the author: Steve Valk left his job of 31 years at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on May 29. His last position there was Sunday Metro Section editor. He has also volunteered for more than 20 years with RESULTS, an advocacy group working to end poverty. He's building a new career dedicated to creating a more just, equitable, sustainable and peaceful world. His articles also appear on Open Salon at http://open.salon.com/blog/steve_valk

Number of posts: 2
Email address: valkano@comcast.net
Web site: http://open.salon.com/blog/steve_valk

About the author: I guess you always end up where you started. Although I was born at Duke, I actually grew up in Georgia, primarily in South Georgia. My daddy's family is from Fitzgerald, my mother's from Worth County. My husband, who is not a native of these parts, is convinced I'm related to half of the state. I've worked in TV, radio, and newspaper (including time at the AJC), primarily in management, but also in news and research. A year ago, due to position eliminations at Clear Channel, I had the chance to move my career plan up by five years and start teaching, which every Ph.D. should do sooner or later. So now, I've come back home (or at least to the region), brought my non-native husband and son and tried to convince my teenage daughter that all is not lost when she's not within 30 minutes of Publix, Dillards, Target, Kohls, a real mall, etc., etc.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: sdebonis@georgiasouthern.edu

About the author: Susan Soper is a longtime journalist: as a writer for Newsday where she was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for The Heroin Trail, writer at CNN, Features Editor at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Executive Editor at Atlanta INtown. Recently, she created and published a workbook, ObitKit (www.obitkit.com). She is currently the executive director of marketing and communications at Oglethorpe University. She lives in Atlanta with her husband, Bo Holland. Her interests include hiking, reading, the arts, people (dead and alive) and, in a better economy, travel. Staying close to home these days, she takes and documents “Urban Hikes” and is interested in sharing sites of interest with readers of Like the Dew.

Number of posts: 5
Email address: ssoper@mindspring.com

About the author: Graduating in '71 from Cornell gave me a few unencumbered years of protesting, followed by 4 happy hipster grad student/worker years at U of Michigan, completing a phd in public administration. Followed a comedian to San Francisco, then my heart to Austin Texas to learn the TV business, dabbled in hot&heavy politics in DC, and returned to Austin & San Antonio, Texas to hone my political/media skills. I make my money conducting consumer and political opinion studies.

Number of posts: 5
Email address: susan_korbel@swbell.net
Web site: http://www.coreresearch.biz

About the author: Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.

Number of posts: 14
Email address: poetrydew@hotmail.com

About the author: Terri Evans is 25+year marketing communications professional, a partner at LeslieEvansCreative and bcauzmarketing (cause-related). She has been a food columnist for Atlanta Intown and Atlanta Buckhead newspapers, and a contributing writer for Georgia Magazine, the Atlanta Business Chronicle and other publications. Evans was also a finalist in a Southern Living cooking competition. She is (and has long been) at work on a novel set in the South (of Georgia) and the South (of France). She's always cookin' up somethin'.

Number of posts: 44
Email address: terri@leslieevanscreative.com

Number of posts: 1
Email address: goose@likethedew.com

About the author: Tiger Liliuokalani is a cat and proud of it. "Cats aren't purr-fect," she says, "but we do so much less harm than people, don't we? Even dogs must agree." A native of Georgia, she is the founder of the international organization, Catnapping for Peace and Justice.

Number of posts: 2
Email address: tigerlili.graham@gmail.com
Web site: http://www.mydemocat.com/

About the author: Tom Baxter is the South's leading political reporter. He is currently editor of the Southern Political Report and senior vice-president of its parent company, InsiderAdvantage, a media and polling firm. For more than 40 years, he has worked for newspapers in Montgomery, Ala., Columbia, Md., Charleston, S.C. and Atlanta, Ga. At the Atlanta Journal-Constitution he was a reporter, editor of the Sunday Perspective section, national editor, and for 20 years, chief political correspondent.

Number of posts: 8
Email address: tombax@mindspring.com

About the author: A former reporter for The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Tom Crawford is the editor of Capitol Impact’s Georgia Report, an Internet news service covering state government in Georgia.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: tcrawford@capitolimpact.net
Web site: http://www.ciclt.net/garpt/

About the author: A Southern writer, Tom Poland’s work has appeared in magazines throughout the South. He’s published five books and more than 500 magazine features. In 1996, Reckon magazine published his literary feature, "Deliver Me from Leviathan," on James Dickey. Excerpts were published in The World As A Lie–James Dickey, the Dickey biography by Henry Hart. The University of South Carolina Press has published three of his books, most recently, Reflections of South Carolina, now in its third printing. For six years, Tom worked as a scriptwriter and cinematographer, working primarily along the South Carolina Lowcountry and its barrier islands. While filming on a primitive barrier island one evening, fog rolled in trapping him overnight. That experience led to his novel, Forbidden Island, and the mythical Georgialina. Currently, he’s working on two nonfiction books. A Lincolnton, Georgia, native and University of Georgia graduate, he lives in Columbia, South Carolina. Read more at www.tompoland.net Favorite Quotes On Writing and Creativity: Writing is a kind of smoke, seized and put on paper. —James Salter I never wanted to be well rounded, and I do not admire well-rounded people nor their work. So far as I can see, nothing good in the world has ever been done by well-rounded people. The good work is done by people with jagged, broken edges, because those edges cut things and leave an imprint, a design. —Harry Crews

Number of posts: 44
Email address: tompol@earthlink.net
Web site: http://www.tompoland.net

About the author: Born in Spartanburg, South Carolina Aug. 11, 1935, Tom Walker graduated from the University of South Carolina and did post-graduate work at UCLA. He started work at The State newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina in 1958 and later worked for The Columbia Record, the afternoon half of the State-Record Co., covering politics, courts, police and civil rights in the '60s. After a little more than a year at the Los Angeles City News Service, a local news wire service in L.A., he joined The Associated Press in Charlotte, North Carolina. In February 1967, he came to The Atlanta Journal and was persuaded (forced?) to take the job as real estate editor. When the then-business editor left in 1970 Tom became business editor. When the Journal and Atlanta Constitution staffs merged in the '80s he became a staff writer, a post he held until leaving for a career as a free-lance writer in 2007.

Number of posts: 15
Email address: walker64882@bellsouth.net

About the author: Illustrator and Designer living in the Candler Park area...At one time I worked at the Atlanta Constitution and then for CNN at the startup...it all seemed too much like real work so I went freelance...which my father once defined as "being unemployed for a real long time".

Number of posts: 11
Email address: irvinprod@mindspring.com
Web site: http://www.irvinproductions.net

About the author: Reformed art critic, curator, and dealer who spent nearly 22 years in New York City as a sort of geographic transvestite. Presently residing in the South (where I belong) although the Chinese take-out was a lot better in New York.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: triciacollins@mac.com

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Email address: vevans1012@comcast.net

About the author:

A writer, humorist, and motivational speaker, Wanda Argersinger was born with a purse in one hand and lipstick in the other.  She wrote her first story in 2^nd grade using all of her spelling words, which brought the attention to her of the school counselors suggesting she get counseling.  An excerpt from this story:  “…mice who drink too

much and party all night long….”

As Executive Director for The Lupus Support Network, Wanda is an advocate for all Lupus patients, working diligently as a member of the Statewide Coalition for the State of Florida Department of Health Arthritis Prevention and Education Program.  She facilitates support groups in the Florida Panhandle and Southern Alabama and trains new facilitators to educate and counsel patients, plans and researches topics to be discussed at meetings.

As a published author, Wanda has wrote the book currently being used in The Lupus Support Network SLESH (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Self Help) classes, written and published a number of pamphlets on various aspects of Lupus currently being used for informational purposes at The Lupus Support Network, and My Personal Health Journal, a book sold for a patient’s use in recording and maintaining vital health information.  This book is sold nationwide and all profits go to The Lupus Support Network.  Most recently Wanda has written Y-Mee’s A-B-C Book of Emotiions and created a doll that accompanies the book, which can be purchased from l-bowonline.com or Lulu.com.

She has also been featured in Featured in MD News Magazine, Lupus Now Magazine, Ladies in Business, the Pensacola News Journal, and the Tallahassee Democrat.

As a motivational speaker, and educator in the area of Lupus health, Wanda has been a speaker for the State of Florida Department of Health, Unlocking the Mysteries of Lupus, among numerous other organizations in Florida and South Alabama.

Wanda has been on a number of local radio talk shows with several call-in shows, and guests on many television programs.

Wanda is constantly working and actively involved in the Lupus Research Institutes National Coalition (advocating for Lupus Patients, research funding, and legislative change), as an Associate Member of the American Academy of Rheumatology, a Member of The American Chronic Pain Association, and a Member of the National Fibromyalgia Association, a Member of the National Society of Newspaper columnists, and a member of the National Association of Professional Women.

Wanda has been published in other publications including The Legend, a monthly column entitled “The Write Site,” spotlighting websites that are of interest to writers), Poetic Voices, June 1999, Emerald Coast Review, a short story and poem, and the Gulf Breeze News, as a guest columnist.

Her achievements and awards are numerous.

Number of posts: 2
Email address: wanda@wandaargersinger.com
Web site: http://www.wandaargersinger.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wanda.argersinger
Twitter: http://twitter.com/LBOWWANDA/

About the author: Age 64 (64 in August 2009) Retired City/County Manager: Spalding County, GA; City of Stone Mountain, GA; Tift County, GA; Polk County, GA. Experience in broadcast journalism and computer programming. Native Mt. Vernon, GA, graduate Montgomery County High School. Graduate Mercer University, BS in Business Administration. Not Democrat, not Republican. American. First cousin of Piney Woods Pete.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: rwj82544@live.com

Email address: webfairy@likethedew.com

About the author: Will Cantrell (a pseudonym) is a freelance writer and humorist. A graduate of Georgia Tech and a former banker, Cantrell, he says, writes “not about life as we know it, but rather about life as how we suspect that it really is.” As an example, he suspects that his cell phone has secret legs, sprouts them when no one is looking and then uses them to crawl under the sofa or front seat of the car. "Obviously that's why I loose the damn thing so much," he says. Will bets that your cell phone has the same proclivities. The legend is that at an early age he wandered south, got lost and like most males was loathe to ask for directions. He was recently sighted somewhere close to I-285, still lost and saying that he was trying to “...write his way home.” Of course, there are a lot of people who suspect that “Cantrell ain't wrapped too tight” but hope that he keeps writing about his experiences as he finds his way back to the main highway. Will has just completed a first book entitled "The Color Fuqua — a mostly true collection of modern tall tales". It is due for publication in July, 2010. He is currently involved in writing a second book, "Nouns and Other Issues". It is due for publication in February, 2011.

Number of posts: 23
Email address: willcantrell1313@gmail.com
Web site: http://bigboomtheory.blogspot.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com/justplainwill13

About the author: William Hedgepeth is a former senior editor and Southeastern bureau chief for LOOK magazine and a former editor at LIFE, Saturday Review, and other national and international publications. A longtime political campaign consultant, he has written for television and films in Hollywood and has authored several books, one of which, "The Hog Book," has just been reissued by the UGA Press. He is married to journalist Carol Carter, also a contributor to "Like the Dew," and lives in the forests of North Georgia with a loyal army of animals.

Number of posts: 1
Email address: hedgepeth@tds.net