Brad Friedman
The Brad Blog
Brad is an L.A.-based investigative journalist/blogger, political commentator, broadcaster, author, Commonweal Institute Fellow and the Publisher and Executive Editor of The BRAD BLOG, which Brit Hume of Fox "News" has described as "popular".
He is the regular fill-in host for the nationally syndicated Mike Malloy Show, and is the producer and co-host of the nationally syndicated "Green News Report", a regular 6-minute radio feature heard on stations and podcasts across the country, with his partner and co-host Desi Doyen.
Spring Warren
The Quarter Acre Farm
Spring Warren, the author of the award winning novel Turpentine lives in a small city in California. The lot her house is on is a little less than a quarter acre in size. She calls it the Quarter Acre Farm not only because of the Geese, ducks, chickens, and rabbits who live there, but because she grows most of her family's food in her yard.
The book Spring has written about becoming a farmer on a small scale, The Quarter Acre Farm, will be coming out with Seal Press this spring. You can read what is happening on the Farm at the moment by following Spring's blog.
Tracy J. Thomas
A Thousand Words
Tracy J. Thomas is a professional photographer, freelance writer & website designer who lives in Northern California. She is also a Photojournalist and Multimedia Director/Photo Editor for iPinion and is in the thesis phase of her M.F.A. in photography at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.
Tracy has been a strongly opinionated individual since the day she breached the womb and loves to combine her photography with her words to express her views on a wide variety of hot button topics as well as every day meanderings and muses.
Amy Ferris
Marrying George Clooney: 3:00 AM Musings From A Midlife Crisis
Amy Ferris lives in Northeast Pennsylvania with her oh so patient & kind husband Ken. She is an author, screenwriter, playright and editor. Her memoir, Marrying George Clooney, Confessions From A Midlife Crisis is Off-Broadway bound, CAP21 Theater is developing and producing for a fall/winter/spring run. Broadway can't be that far behind.
This blog continues in the same vein as her book -- to support and encourage women to fulfill their greatness: to be bold, audacious, extraordinary and beautiful.
Gabriel Cross
Green Cross
Gabriel Cross is a LEED AP BD+C and Sustainability Consultant. He has studied environmental issues and sustainability at UCLA. His wife is pursuing her Masters of Architecture with an emphasis in Ecological Design at the University of Oregon in Eugene.
The blog Green Cross is all about going green. It is filled with discussion of how and why to adopt more sustainable practices in daily life, and anecdotes about how Gabe tries to apply them to his life.
Hollye Dexter
Truth and Consequences
Hollye Dexter is freelance writer, blogger and author of the memoir Only Good Things. She is also a singer/songwriter with four albums out. She founded two nonprofit organizations, running intergenerational arts programs for senior citizens and teenagers in the Foster Care Systems. In 2007 she received the Agape Spirit award from Dr. Michael Beckwith (from "The Secret") for her work with at-risk youth. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and three children.
Crystal Apilado
Apologies To My Cat Because I had Kids
Crystal Apilado is a freelance writer, blogger and full-time mother to her four children and her cat. She works in the pet industry on the publishing side and manages the social networking venues at her company.
Crystal's blog, Apologies To My Cat Because I had Kids, is a continuation about life with cats and kids from her first blog "Cats In The Family" at CatChannel.com.
