contributors

Lisa Bigelow has finally achieved the 3-day weekend and 6-hour workday by subbing for the Chicago Public Schools. Among her other pursuits are writing, making art, and practicing Frisbee. In spite of her underlying suspicion and resentment of computers, she is the web designer and editor of On a Whim. She encourages anyone and everyone to participate in this project.
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Joe Chellman is a restless soul who can’t make up his mind. He’s a drummer and web developer, amateur photographer, enthusiastic cook, voracious reader, and occasional basketball player, in addition to hosting and providing tech support for On a Whim. He grew up in New Hampshire, where there are towns with more critters than people. Sometimes Joe feels like those towns.
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David Crowell is a strange, inveterate liar, unfriendly by design. Favorite poets include Lyn Hejinian, Blindboy Fuller, Dizzy Dean. Can be found at home or work, depending on time. Recent studies include Paul Fussel, Renate Adler, Joe Frank.

Krista Goebel reads tampon instructions and shampoo bottles to avoid work. She received her sociology degree from Western Michigan in summer of 2001. She believes in opportunity and responsibility and wise choices. She practices none of these regularly and some of them sporadically. Krista’s primary aspiration is to be a brownie baking, slumber party planning, mini-van driving, parent-teacher conference attending, mall shopping, thank you note writing, nap taking, Oprah watching, Martha Stewart resenting, peace appreciating, celebrated soccer mom.

Keith Irwin is a mastermind of cryptography, whimsical poetry, and intergalactic telepathy. He lives in North Carolina.

Tala Rassool is a nursing student in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her off-beat sense of humor and flights of fancy have kept many a person wondering just what she’s really thinking behind those rapidly blinking eyes.