Ann Hellums

I love being a mommy and a wife, but those are just 2 of the many things that define me as a person. I am loud, opinionated, and I don't need your approval. If you are offended by anything I say here, I am sorry that you have a stick up your ass. Don't keep reading if you don't like what I have to say. I am Mom to 2 boys (so far) but hopefully someday a little girl too. I have always loved to write, and now I am using it as a way to cope with being an adult, and to air my grievances with the world.

Josey

I grew up as an army brat and moved around every few years until I got my first job out of grad school and "settled down." My six years in CT is the longest I've lived consecutively in any state. I teach science and fit the stereotype - glasses, pocket protector and I'll happily explain the science behind any situation.

I started experimenting with web authorship as early as 1998, but didn't make anything lasting until 10 years later when I started a webpage about origami called foldsomething.com. Much more recently, I've started a blog called nexttopicplease.com that I use to write about whatever topic happens to interest me at the time. It's an outlet to share my thoughts on technology, education, pop culture and more. "josey4628"

http://nexttopicplease.com/

Goosequill

"Goose is retired and lives in West Virginia. He enjoys blogging about a hodgepodge of subjects including regional news, ecology, mountaintop removal mining, wind farms, politics, baseball, the military, science, conservative matters, constitutional issues, humor and other miscellany."

http://goosequill.net/blog/

Glen Humble (Wavecrest)

My name is Glen Humble. I am 43 years old and live with my wife and young son in Kent, England. Since leaving school at the age of 16, I have worked in the shipping and freight industry both in the UK and also in Germany and Belgium. In 1994, I decided to start my own shipping business called Wavecrest Ltd. In my spare time, I like to spend time exploring the history of the local area where I live, taking photos and writing about it on my Kent Today and Yesterday blog.

http://kenttodayandyesterday.blogspot.com/
http://wavecrestlimited.choseit.com/
RBU Join Date 01-24-2010

Nicone Atthi Bio

I am an architect with a Dynamic Family Home who loves writing about our home improvement projects as well as our logistical household challenges, looking for inspiration anywhere I can find it! I've been an architect since 1993 and a parent since 1996 and during those years I have accumulated a lot of experience in both arenas. I got married and established my Dynamic Family in 2000, with my husband and me, together with his and my child from previous relationships. Since then we've had three more children together! When our third (fourth, fifth - according to how you count) child came along we realized that we needed a bigger house and I've been really excited about the opportunity to adjust our new home to suit our needs on almost every level. And whatever still doesn't fit - I'm working on it!

The idea about starting The Dynamic Family Home site came to me in November of 2009 during a quite chaotic period of my life dominated by a lot of work and little play. I felt like I was drowning in practical tasks and a heavy workload both at home and at work. It was time to turn things around and start focusing on the opportunities instead of the obstacles in my life, and to have some fun! So the blog about mastering the challenges of everyday life in a Dynamic Family, while creating the Home of our dreams, was born!

Frank Brinkman (icare2b) Bio

I have retired after 41 years in the computer industry.  Some of the jobs I held were: systems analyst, senior programmer, manager, and crisis manager.  I write poems, prose, and musings into my journals.  Since retiring in 2006 I now have time to do the things I have only dreamt of.    

I started drawing and painting when I was in elementary school.  I sketch, sculpt, and wire-wrap semi-precious stones into beautiful pendants for necklaces.  I will be posting poems, prose, basic truths of living that I have discovered, and musings from my personal journals that I started writing in 1994.   

I have entered poems from 1994 into late 1997 on my Poetry Blog: Frank's Musings and Prose located at http://icare2be.wordpress.com/about/  There are about 170 poems on this blog.  There have been over 90 positive comments received and are also posted.  I try to add something new each week

Ibn Hanif (eYeWitness) Bio

Although I was born in a small village of Kashmir, I spent most of my school and college life in Lahore (a crowded city).  Professionally I belong to the field of electrical technology, but just trouble shooting the electrical circuits is not the only way I wish to serve my fellow human beings.  I think I should also do whatever I can to see a world full of love and peace.  I joined the blogosphere to compare and share my thoughts and beliefs with people from all around the world.   

 

I hope I would not hesitate to correct myself whenever and wherever I will realize that I am wrong.  I love communications and discussions as long as they are held in a friendly environment.  Of course English is not my first language but I am an amateur photographer who desires to convey the missing message through photos of seeds, leaves, trees, flowers and with thorns too.

Sean Macgillicuddy (BothEyesShut) Bio

BothEyesShut is your friendly autodidact, at your service to enthuse, confuse and discombobulate for your casual amusement.  “In a Real World, This Would Be Happening” is his first return to non-fiction since his monthly column in Going Coastal Magazine in 2001.  He is the author of five novels.  He lives in Long Beach, CA, with his ever-loving and two cats, and has not outgrown his pubescent penchant for vinyl records.

JuJuBe Bio

My name is Joanna aka JuJuBe. I am a passionate person, especially when it comes to issues of social justice!  I am particularly interested in discussions of race/racism, fat acceptance, mental health advocacy and the criminal (in)justice system.  I am 36 years old, and have variously been labeled "fat", "crazy", and "hippy weirdo".  My goal is to embrace that which was supposed to shame me by accepting that maybe I am all those things and more.  So much more. And that is a good thing.  I blog at http://mynameisjujube.blogspot.com/ 

Kristin Brumm (kbxmas) Bio

www.wanderlust.com

I was born in California, requested transfer to Australia, and through a bureaucratic f*ck-up was dumped by the Universe in the middle of the Midwestern Plains. I'm a nonprofit professional who works too many hours, a mother, a sometimes world traveler, a neglectful housekeeper and a dreamer extraordinaire, and I write around the corners of all of this. My goal is to mother, travel, housekeep, etc. around the corners of my writing. I think that's a reasonable goal.

I recently started writing again after a 15-year hiatus and realized I had been a fool to stop. Why do we ever stop doing the things that make us feel alive? 

I live with two phenomenal kids who delight and exhaust me, countless stacks of books and zero cats, which is two too few. Victims and pessimists irritate me. I believe we create our own experience of life and I've spent the better part of my life figuring out how to do a better job of that. I think I'm getting better at it.

Antonio Maurice Daniels (Revolutionary Paideia) Bio

Antonio Maurice Daniels is a Ph.D. student, Research Associate, and instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Daniels is currently situated in the Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a Benjamin Franklin Lever Fellow and Earl E. Hoffman Fellow. Before coming to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Antonio completed undergraduate and graduate work in English at Albany State University and the University of Arkansas. He served as an English instructor at the University of Arkansas. Daniels is a published scholar and currently working on two scholarly book projects. Antonio is the Editor of Annuals of the Next Generation, a scholarly multidisciplinary journal and the former Editorial Assistant for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Reader Series. Mr. Daniels is the Chief Financial Officer and Board Member for The Newton County Community Center, Inc., a non-profit organization in Covington, Georgia. Antonio’s scholarly research interests are college sport management, ecological sustainability in higher and postsecondary education, mental health, and postmodernism. He is an avid fan of the Arkansas Razorbacks and Albany State University Golden Rams. Daniels is 29 years old, single, and resides in Madison, Wisconsin

ARGENTUM VULGARIS' BIO

I'm not a complete idiot, there are some parts missing. A blogger since 2008, having dropped out of school and completed my education in the University of Life, I have this compulsion to tell/confess/admit various aspects of my life. My life story is unfolding little by little on Life is Just Like That... I was raised without having to want shoes, a roof nor a full belly. I now find myself in a world where these things are not a guarantee, my education continues. As expressed by my various blogs, I have various interests, of which all are not included in them yet. I am a blogoholic, I find the medium to suit my level of commitment. My coffee and tobacco are the fuels by which I blog, I have few enough vices left at my age and am loathe to be viceless for the remainder of my allotted span. In my travels I have seen rights and wrongs, I am but one voice, and while alone I cannot change them, I can spread the word to those who do not have the chance that I have in being able to travel. There are several sayings around, "Life begins at forty," "You can't keep an old dog down," "Travel broadens the mind" and "You're only as old as you feel;" I have found them all to be true. I have loved and been let down in love, more than once, and am now content to reminisce and watch the world go by, participating as needed. I brought four kids into the world and raised them until I was no longer needed and cast aside, I have helped in the raising of another eight; they have been the most precious times of my life. I hated English when I was at school, now I write English grammar books, proof that the world turns and I along with it. My hope is that there are still a few more revolutions left.

KEVIN’S BIO

Kevin is a creative adventurer living in Los Angeles, CA who pressed the re-set button on his life, decided to pursue his dreams and track his thoughts in the blog "A More Interesting Life" on www.thisnewlifeofmind@blogspot.com

KIM'S BIO

I am a stay at home mom to 2, a daughter, 12 and son 9.  I consider myself new to blogging and am enjoying the amazing and supportive folks out there.  I started to get back in touch with my creative side and was hooked on lampwork beads.  Jewelry creation is a hobby and I am exploring many more creative outlets from photography to mixed media and polymer clay.  I enjoy humorous observations of everyday life.  You never know what you are going to find on my blog because I ramble and quip and share various things I come across with my readers.  I love reading about other moms, families and creative types.  I hope you come back often for a stop in the Sandbox.

FRANK BRINKMAN'S BIO

I have retired after 41 years in the computer industry working for a major company in the product development and customer satisfaction business areas. Yet, that is not who I am. That is just where I earned income for my family. I think of myself as an artist without a specialty. I write poems, prose, and musings into my blank book journals. I sketch, paint, sculpt, and wirewrap semi-precious stones for pendants. Upon recommendation of a friend I started a blog to share my personal journals.

Even this is not who I am.. Like you I am learning, growing and changing.. I do not plan to stop. I will be posting poems, prose, and musings from my personal journals I started writing in 1994. I have 2 of the 6 journals entered into the Frank's Musings & Prose Blog. There are 110 entries on the blog as of the end of March 2010. I will gradually add the rest of the poems. I would estimate that there are another 200 poems in those journals.

I thought I had already done this.. Although in the first I did not include a bio. Please feel free to use what you need. 8?)

STEVE’S BIO

Entrepreneur, communication consultant, NLP practitioner, life coach. I am a very passionate person. I love sharing with others, writing and traveling all over the world to discover new cultures.

I write because I want to inspire and make people realize the uniqueness and potential they own, just by being themselves one moment at a time.

MOLLINAH’S BIO

I’ve been writing since 2002, and worked on an un-published writing entitled, ‘Unheard Desires’ - as a personal expression only. I’m a blogger based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and been blogging since 2007 with my solo traveling journal for a personal discovery and review project around S.E.A. I blog because it’s a therapy for me and love to share my side of the story. At the moment, I blog about personal and local issues, before continuing on a wider perspective of an upcoming travel project review in another continent.

PIERRE’S BIO

Pierre le Roux is a gay author from South Africa who derives his inspiration for his articles from his personal life as well as global issues the GLBT community faces.  Issues ranging from discrimination and human rights to the latest misadventures of him and his husband.  Pierre’s take on life is sometimes serious, sometimes funny but always entertaining.

LAYLA’S BIO

Layla Morgan Wilde is a Canadian living in New York who dispenses daily wit & wisdom at her blog The Boomer Muse. She loves photography, writing, cooking and cats, and is known as the photo quote de jour guru. Her #1 passion is transforming  lives as an intuitive life coach.

ANNE MARIE’S BIO

Anne Marie Segal lives in New England, loves art and writes a blog called BAGEL on a TREE. She's the mother of two young children who happily steal her nights and weekends. She's also a lawyer, but that's a whole other story.

MARTY’S BIO

Marty Rubin is an aphorist, currently residing in upstate New York.  He considers himself  "a writer of aphorisms for aphorism's sake."

LOLA’S BIO

My name is Lola and The Lola Vibe blog was created to be a safe place for me and for any passersby interested in a different perspective on emotional health, emotional wellbeing and emotional abuse. I’m not an expert on anything other than myself and even then I can’t say I have an advanced understanding! But I try, and that’s the main thing I think human beings can do to help themselves be happy. To try and understand themselves so they can be all they can be. Optimizing emotional health is important but sometimes we need to develop new perspectives and through The Lola Vibe, I offer my thoughts.

ANGELIA’S BIO

Small town girl that moved to the city over twenty years ago. She is a travel agent blessed with a beautiful daughter named Sydney. She loves to write, read, and meet new friends. She loves life, loves to laugh, and enjoy each beautiful day.

JACKRABBIT’S BIO

“Jackrabbit” is a soon-to-be thirtysomething Rocky Mountain transplant to Appalachia, where I am currently trying to finish out a PhD program in medieval literature; I currently am spending a lot of time dreaming of the front range and yet trying to force myself to fall in love with the South. (Magnolias may beguile me yet.)  I absolutely love hiking in wilderness and seeing strange, unexplored vistas, and for me, blogging is kind of like that—it’s hiking through my mind and exploring its sometimes wild and strange frontiers. 

My blog, Jackrabbit Goes Down the Rabbit-Hole, is an ongoing exploration of the mysteries of identity and community, trauma and reconciliation while focusing on a life-changing text: Tectonic Theater’s The Laramie Project.  The play chronicles what it was like to live in Laramie following Matthew Shepard’s murder, where I was going to school at the time.

ASHLEY'S BIO

This Brunette is the pride of Kansas City, no really… I’m not shitting you. I’m a big deal in Kansas. Dorothy and her ‘ruby red slippers’ didn’t have shit on me and my red high heels. Sorry, bitch go back to Oz, the Crazy Brunette has taken over.

I’m a trophy wife with a trucker’s mouth, popping Xanex like M&M’s, stomping my cigarettes out before the PTA bitches attack, and rocking my 4in. high heels while grocery shopping at Wal-Mart.

I’m the coolest chick you know. Accept it, deal with it, and get the hell over it.

GLEN'S BIO

Sooner or later, in this blogging world, you find yourself having to do the hardest bit of writing that there is. You have to write about yourself. So strap yourself in because that’s what I’m about to try and do.

Consider me like the 2^nd hand Ford you had when you were twenty. Not the 4^th hand Mini that you had when you were 18 and had all that fun in, cramming 5 friends inside and heading off to the coast. You painted flames on the side to cover the rust, parked up in the woods with your latest girlfriend and learned to remove her bra with one hand.

I’m the Fiesta that got you where you wanted 8/10 times, and who stuck by you through thick and thin, even though you had started having ‘proper’ relationships that meant you weren’t getting to hang out with your mates because you were ‘a couple’. The fun trips to the coast had gone, but so too had the fun trips to the woods. That’s me, never the centre of attention when it comes to having fun, but loyal and occasionally dependable. I joined the Royal Navy when I was 16 and spent 11 years trying to be someone that I am not, sometimes I laughed so hard that I cried, sometimes I just cried. The Navy can be like that.

Now I’m a married civilian and have two boys. My family are my world, and I am very lucky, mainly because they are all such head cases that I always have something to write about. If there is one thing about which I’m certain?

I love to write.

ANTONY’S BIO

Northernlight:- a voice from the north of England, calling out from the Yorkshire Dales across the Moors to the coast and the sea; a voice with stories and verse; expressing an opinion, informing and hopefully at the same time entertaining you.

Me - a Yorkshireman, not too archetypal, married with two grown up ‘kids’, a person who tries to enjoy life but not at the expense of others.

After many years of working in the finance industry and recently for a Government Agency, I have now found a new challenge. I enjoy writing!

My other interests include walking, photography, reading, history and travel.

AVERY’S BIO

As a former middle school history teacher who spent 12 years molding the minds of youths who stepped over the threshold into my classroom I gave it up a few years ago with the blessing and encouragement of my family to pursue my lifelong passion…writing.  (And to preserve my sanity) 

My blogging life started in April of 2009 as a way to take a break from the other writing projects I was working on (a fantasy adventure series as well as several romance stories) and I quickly found that I adored the freedom my blog ‘When a Southern Woman Rambles’ afforded me in that I could ramble on without having to make sure that it followed a plot line.  I also love the fact that I can write about things that are silly, sentimental or serious.  And it thrills me to know that if I want to, I can fall back on that Master’s Degree in History that cost me an arm and a leg to get and write up a whimsical bit on things that happened in years past.  

At first, my blog was all consuming and I found that I was neglecting my other projects and I feared that I might not only burn out my blogging flame but also my desire to work on my other projects.  So I scaled down my postings to one a week so that I could not only work on my books but so I could enjoy my time as a wife and mother.  And no, I’m not yet published but I dream big and I know that if I keep at it one day a book by L Avery Brown will grace a bookshelf…somewhere.