A different blogger each day of the month. Writing for the sake of writing.
(Day of the month) Cast of characters:
Jamelah comes from a large family full of storytellers, and she caught the bug as soon as she was able to talk. As a child, she was frequently in trouble for making up wild first-person stories (other people referred to them as big lies), but as she got older, she learned the same behavior was perfectly acceptable as long as she wrote things down and called them fiction. Her favorite thing in the entire world is being in the middle of a moment and thinking “I can’t wait to tell this story.” Fortunately, this happens to her at least once a day. Even more fortunately, this makes her a big hit at parties.
Over the years, Jamelah has been a landscaper, a newspaper reporter, a graphic designer, a secretary and an AmeriCorps volunteer, and it seems that no matter what she does, she is frequently asked to spell and proofread things. She lives in Michigan with her hyperactive border collie. Neither of them can sit still for long.
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Jess currently resides in Charm City, where she gets to read and write for a living. Blogging since 2007, she’s gone through many phases and aliases before settling on her own name.
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(3rd) Lauren / @laurentheanimal
Lauren. Brooklyn-born. Mighty tight woman. Editrix of the world. Come correct or don’t come at all.
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Here’s the thing. I put so much of my creative energy into writing about a hypothetical peanut allergy and the subsequent unraveling of my ENTIRE UNIVERSE that really, I’m feeling kind of tapped. Stay tuned for something better next month. Until then, follow me on Twitter or at well that’s awkward.
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(5th) Catherine / @theintegralcat
Catherine is a veteran personal blogger, entrepreneur gone Empress, and will soon add Mama to her list of aliases. A devoted resident of Asheville, North Carolina and student of the human condition, she digs books and plants.
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(6th) Nicole / @NicoleMarieSays
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Peter is a writer, an optioned screenwriter, and has been blogging since the beginning of time. He’s also written a novel, #$@%ing Read Me. You should #$@%ing read it! He thinks that sweet potato fries are not sweet, potatoes, or fries. He loves fantasy sports, Toronto Blue Jays baseball caps, Adidas Gazelles, The West Wing and girls from Texas.
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Corby Anderson is a reclusive nomad — a more difficult lifestyle to pull off than one might imagine at first glance. By day Anderson holes up in whatever spidery canyon crack or steaming city grate he can squeeze his bulbous body into, resting and keeping his mind active by listening to right-wing talk radio. By night he walks the earth from edge to serrated edge, absorbing the totality of all the misery and joys of the human experience through the soles of a specially modified pair of Reef sandals.
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(9th) sarahdotcom / @sarahdotcom
Sarah is a longboard-riding, sports-playing tomboy, who has a tendency to slip into heels and tiny dresses at twilight. Typically Canadian, she overuses “eh”, smothers food in maple syrup and considers the ice rink her home. She’s too competitive for yoga. She is terrified of cats.
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Andrea is a 30-year-old eater, writer, Bar Method-er, loud laugh-er, real-talker, and personal essayist. She enjoys coffee, sarcasm, and hyperbole, and is often described as simultaneously blunt and charming. She blogs at caffeinate-me.com, runs on the beach in Venice, CA and the hills of the Santa Monica Mountains, and fuels up with sweetened venti iced coffees with half-and-half from Starbucks. Her weaknesses include Doritos, puppies, and wine. She likes doing new, fun stuff.
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Katie, 28, is a writer, community manager, and pancake addict from Philadelphia, PA. An 11 year veteran of blogging, Katie believes firmly in the power and good that can come from finding your place within a community of like-minded, kick-ass people. When she’s not working hard so she can play hard, you can find her looking for new views of the city, watching Dexter, and consuming her body weight in Pancakes. Katie’s on every possible internet website too- she gets around… but you can start with her blog: katieblogs.com and twitter: @katieblogs.
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Harley just moved to Germany, but will write a real bio soon. Though probably not in German.
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Doniree Walker is a food + lifestyle blogger based in Portland, Oregon. She believes in champagne with breakfast, living with intention, and can be found somewhere between half-pigeon and happy hour.
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(14th) Kristin / @kristinblakely
Kristin is a southern girl living in Columbia, South Carolina. She has no idea what she wants to be when she grows up. In the meantime she spends her time arguing with gents about sports, running long distances, eating grilled cheese, reading everything in sight, and drinking chai lattes. She’s a little bit boho, a little bit country, and a whole lot of snark.
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Jennifer is a former sorority girl turn geek. By day, she’s a news editor and iOS app enthusiast. By night, an iPad-doodler extraordinaire. Jennifer embraces her quirks, and isn’t embarrassed to blog about them at Bottle Up The Crazy. She’s inspired by fellow bloggers, bright colors, rainy days, and meatballs.
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Laney is a reality television casting producer (who, unfortunately, cannot get you on The Amazing Race…sorry), wife and first-time mama to a toddler. A New Yorker at heart who recently returned to her suburban Jersey roots, she is a consummate Libra who enjoys wine, running, bows, banana bread (and banana pudding, and banana cream pie), fountain soda at the movies, reading in Central Park, writing with fine point Sharpies, wedges, London, the Yankees, pasta (in any form), long emails, cracking open a new book and flirty dresses.
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Mikael is a twenty-something making a living as a writer/social media/web extraordinaire and making a life as a performer in good ol’ Salt Lake City. She loves almond milk in her coffee, pianos of all shapes and sizes, making weird voices and sounds, books with awesome female characters, playing rock-em-sock-em video games, lighthouses, European chocolate, and spreading ALL the feelings through music and the written word.
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(19th) Sean Brown / @SeanMcBrown
Sean can be found wandering the streets of Portland wearing his ratty flip-flops regardless of weather conditions. Wary of most things in general, Sean adores all pursuits that smack original and creative. He has a special connection with animals, small children, and homeless people. He spends long nights writing in dive bars, and drinks more caffeine than is safe or advisable. He chooses not to acknowledge the particular viciousness in this cycle of dependency. You and him would probably be friends.
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(20th) Stacey Joy / @curvesandnerves
Stacey has been blogging on every platform imaginable since 2000 and still has not figured out how to write a halfway decent online bio. She swears too much, uses capslock like a crutch, lives in social media, and pours beer for money.
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(21st) Alexia / @alexiaroumanas
Her name is Alexia. But that’s just how she knows when her mother’s mad at her. Everyone calls her Lexi, which means word in Greek. It’s no wonder she grew up to become a writer. She was born in Sydney and raised in Athens. She studied in London. Now she lives in Melbourne. She is good at loving cats, wearing red lipstick, and talking French when she’s drunk. She’s bad at paying attention, paying bills, and being a vegan (damn you, ice-cream).
She writes better than she talks but not as much.
Address compliments, gin and magic here:
http://www.alexiaroumanaswriting.wordpress.com/
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Lauren is entirely Midwestern complete with a farm-girl childhood, country verbiage, and an astonishingly large family. Following a serious academic career, her small-town heart now resides in a big city on the West Coast pursuing her dream of “changing the world”. She has a perpetual love for bulldogs, Cambodia, college football, Ayn Rand, and fine wines.
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(23rd) Cassie/ @WittyCassieHere
Cassie Paton is an East Coast girl in a West Coast state of mind. With the hopes of making a cross-country move in the near future (ideally in a blue Volkswagen Beetle, though let’s be honest… her wardrobe wouldn’t fit), the California dreamer spends her spare time taking photos and drinking IPAs and/or boxed wine. Cassie blogs at [Witty Title Here] and tweets @WittyCassieHere.
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Jenn is a northern transplant currently living and exploring in Atlanta, Georgia. She keeps herself entertained with weekly trivia nights, a kickball league, and cozying up to her DVR full of crime dramas. A blogger for over four years now, she’s not sure how she would communicate if she couldn’t share her life stories with strangers on the internet. Jenn graduated from Tufts University with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science. She currently works in marketing for a construction management firm in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Ameena currently spends her days working for the mouse in Orlando, Florida. A proud professional exaggerator and binge-watcher of television, she dreams of loft apartments in the sky and finding the perfect shade of red lipstick. Her favorite hobbies include watching Meg Ryan movies, eating an obscene number of Brussels sprouts, and collecting quotes from people far wiser than she. You can find her musings at She Keeps Flying Anyway or follow her on Twitter.
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(26th) Derek Shanahan / @dshanahan
Derek’s deeply passionate about writing in front of people, building communities, and turning ideas into reality. He co-founded Foodtree, a web and mobile startup, and 20 Something Bloggers, a worldwide network for personal bloggers. He’s been blogging since unicorns were invented.
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Terra is part wild animal, loves IPAs, cheese, chocolate, and running, especially if there’s mud involved. She believes in eating popcorn for dinner, currently lives with two dogs and two cats and plays cat-mom to a hoard of feral cats, including a possum cat and a raccoon cat who are not actually cats. She’s married to a super hero, has spent the past ten years in the military, is sociologically-minded and laughs too loud..
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(28th)Dave Courbanou / @courbs
Dave Courbanou is a freelance writer for the IT channel, craving creative outlets. A native New Yorker and Fordham University alum, Dave is a pianist, poet, cook, surrealist daydreamer and self-proclaimed renaissance man. When he’s not blogging, he’s tweeting and indulging in his love affair with sleep, sheets and creature comforts.
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(29th) Sarah / @metamorphocity
Sarah is a former plane-flying, ballroom dancing with the elderly-ing, crop-circle-ing, party dress wearing reporter in a very small town transplanted to the big city.
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Jess Ostroff is the Founder and Director of Calm of Don’t Panic Management, an online social media and content management agency dedicated to helping the owners of small to mid-sized businesses organize and execute their operations and marketing needs so they can focus on growing their company. She is all too familiar with the term “quarter-life crisis”, is a hopeful romantic, and has a strong passion for live music, wine, and enjoying good food with good friends.
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(31st) Special Guests
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