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.