I occasionally take pictures, sometimes of cats or moss, and I spend a lot of time professionally thinking about what things mean. 
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                    
                            
                    
                    
                                            Writer, birder, teacher, generalist. Author of THE VERB 'TO BIRD', ALONG THOSE LINES, THE AMAZING Q, etc. Tar Heel Born and Honorary Substitute Legionnaire. he/him. guitar/keyboards/vocals.
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Executive editor, Library Journal. Writer, artist, baker, correspondent, owner of too many animals and fountain pens, aging hipster. Opinions here are my own.
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Reader, sometimes writer, museum person, free-form radio dj
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                    
                            
                    
                    
                                            West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, DC, Virginia, Ohio, Texas, Ireland, California - I’ve lived everywhere and enjoyed them all. Northern Virginia is home.
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Writer, Documentary Filmmaker, Inveterate Recommender
New Book: BREAK THE FRAME: CONVERSATIONS WITH WOMEN FILMMAKERS 
https://tinyurl.com/yc5r894h
www.breaktheframebook.com
www.kevinsmokler.com
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Writer, teacher, gentle rabble rouser. Co-proprietor of Secret World Books in Highland Park, IL.
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Recovering news producer. 📺 Dog mom. 🐕🦺 Reunited adoptee. 💕 Mini driver. 🚘 Cleveland is home.🏡 #Resist
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Movie lover, reader, terrible guitar player, Illinoisan/Virginian
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Big fan of liberal politics, clean code, Victorian literature, and the Oxford comma. She/her.
My political opinions are mine alone and do not reflect the views of my employer.
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Instigator, Author, Changemaker, Avid Reader, Coffee Afficinado
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                    
                            
                    
                    
                                            Writer. Editor of WHAT MY MOTHER AND I DON’T TALK ABOUT (2019) and WHAT MY FATHER AND I DON’T TALK ABOUT (May 2025). 
www.michelefilgate.com
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                            Book reader, cat wrangler, doomscroller. Tar Heel.
                                     
                            
                    
                    
                                    
                            
                    
                    
                                            Arts writer in Kansas. Co-founder of the SHOUT, Wichita's dedicated arts & culture news source: shoutwichita.com 
CV: National Critics Institute fellow & Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writing grantee, journalist-in-residence @ Wichita Art Museum, typo queen