Co-Founders & Managing Editors

Lindsay can text her husband with one hand while making bacon-embedded pancakes with the other.  An admitted music snob, she can tell you what song was playing in any scene of Grey’s Anatomy. She’s a chic geek, always up on the latest tech gadgets whether the flavor is Apple, Android, or Open Source. Even when her friends laugh in her face, she runs in all weather, from blizzards to 100 degree heat.  Our resident sports fan (Go Steelers! Go Yankees!) is in charge of all things code.

Dresden likes cold weather more than most people should and once wrapped her Canon camera in several layers of plastic wrap just so she could stay outside in a snowstorm and take photographs. A former Hollywood insider, she now watches too much television (or just enough), but believes that someday there will be a quiz on reality tv. When not on a quest for the perfect pair of fat pants she is in charge of making things pretty around here.

JJ can often be found blogging or sorting her M&M’s into color groups before consuming. She enjoys thrift shopping, watching a great movie, baking a 14-layer-chocolate cake, and making a sweet mixed-CD. When she’s not in front of her computer, she loves to travel with her husband and sing songs in the kitchen using a wooden spoon microphone with her 2 year old son.

Mel is the author of the blog, Stirrup Queens as well as the wildly informative and critically acclaimed books, Navigating the Land of IF and  Life from Scratch.  She is also a contributing editor at BlogHer.  When not daydreaming of moving her entire family to Smith Island she likes to make her friends and family bread. But she does not do this often enough and they are starving. Calliope, in particular would like MORE BREAD PLEASE. Mel is a big fan of obscure bands from the 90′s and will not be mocked for it. She believes that if she makes the world a better place that an iPad will fall into her lap. (Photo credit Mary Gardella)

Contributing Writers

Jane is a foodie and fitness guru, there’s nothing she loves more than a great work-out, and the perfect dark chocolate. Not a TV buff, she spends her time checking out new kid-friendly sites, tending her organic garden, shopping at thrift stores, and buffing up her home’s green standards. An extreme extrovert, she believes all her best finds from new products to the best thrift store in the area are better shared.

Briar‘s day job involves teaching children about Wikipedia and she can categorize absolutely anything using the Dewey Decimal System. She lives in a renovated Brooklyn brownstone where there really is a place for everything. Her awesome husband is the mother of her college-aged stepson and father of her pre-school-aged son. She prefers digital books over real ones but for all else paper over plastic. Her enthusiasm for eco-friendly products is legendary. Briar can usually be found online, fact-checking television shows as she watches them or exploring bargain travel possibilities.

Shelli loves curling up with a nice glass of Pinot Grigio, or Noir, depending on the weather, and getting down with the latest in sewing and quilting trends.  Often referred to as the Lesbian Martha Stewart, her ultimate ambition is to open a restaurant called: “Kosh-Organic,” serving the yummiest Kosher, organic cuisine.  When not being lured by the craftiness that has taken over her NYC apartment, she can be found teaching her Pre-K daughter and Toddler son how to properly crack an egg.

Rose lives amidst much clutter with her daughter and 2 cats in a small New York City apartment. In her mind she is a minimalist, and would love to have a place for everything and everything in its place. It’s a pipe dream that would entail a lot of purging and organizing. As a single, work outside the home mom, there’s not much energy left for those things once the babe is asleep and the bottles and food containers are prepared to take to daycare the next morning. She works as a graphic designer, but hopes to someday have the time and resources to get back to having clay under her fingernails. She LOVES to travel, and hopes her little one will have the travel bug, too. How old do they have to be before children can wheel their own luggage?

Donna, a proud native of the beautiful Green Mountains of Vermont, is a newspaperwoman, editrix for hire and foreign-affairs nerd. Actually she’s a nerd about a lot of things, including (unavoidably) the proper style and usage of the English language. In her spare time you’ll find her rehearsing for a show with her amateur tap-dance company, or maybe doing a bit of container gardening on the postage-stamp-sized balcony of her postage-stamp-sized D.C. apartment. She strongly dislikes the New York Yankees.