contributors

Liana Allers has a degree in earth science education, making her qualified to teach angsty, hormone-ridden adolescents about minerals, volcanoes, and other wonders of earth science. Among Liana’s creative and enviable talents are photography, art, and spontaneous silliness.
» Liana’s Web Site

Lisa Bigelow believes in 3-day weekends and 6-hour workdays (for a start). Among her pursuits are writing, making art, practicing Frisbee, and finding ways to pay rent in the Bay Area. 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.
» Lisa’s Other Web Site

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.
» Joe’s Web Site

Robert Devereux was the Earl of Essex and was decapitated for trying to overthrow Queen Elizabeth. Now, he works in a cube farm and plots his return to power. He works on music in his spare time.
» Rob’s Web Site

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.

Erin Rhodes is a professional actor and freelance writer. Her current project is Tony and Tina’s Wedding, the improvisational dinner-theater comedy, in which she again must kiss a man considerably older than herself. Erin performed in Freesias in Whiskey and Pittsburgh Public Theatre's production of Romeo and Juliet during 2001, and she regularly conducts interviews for Pittsburgh City Paper. Erin is the companion of a handsome green teddy bear named Victor.

Michael Sullivan is a recovering Catholic and Republican who lives and writes in New York City. He’s not sure which of those denominations scarred him more. He is happily married to Kerrigan, a director in every sense of the word, and they are expecting a new player to come along in the middle of July. He/she will be raised by their parrot Fezzy, who seems to have a better grasp on world religions.