Anissa Mayhew ~ Founder, Publisher, Lead Editor

I hereby declare this a judgment-free zone. We do not snicker at each other’s meltdowns, breakdowns, blowups or otherwise perceived unacceptable behavior. We embrace it!  It’s what keeps us sane and going day-to-day. Plus? It works for us.

After blogging for three years at Hope4Peyton about my daughter’s battle with cancer, I decided that I needed to branch out in the world and launched a blog called #FreeAnissa to have this space where I could just be me…braless, filterless, myself in all the imperfect glory that is me.

The imperfect me then had two strokes, got a wheelchair and learned the art of handicapped parking! I have a husband, three kids, a dog, a cat and a frog…they’re all just lucky I’ve kept them all alive THIS long, yo.

I have felt a mission to prove that better isn’t always….er….better. Sometimes it’s just good enough and that totally rocks! Slackers UNITE!…later…maybe after a snack…and Grey’s Anatomy…and a nap.

Just in case you wake up in the middle of the night, turn to your significant other and say, “I think I could have read more Anissa today”, you can find me me on Facebook and abusing hashtags on Twitter.

IzzyMom ~ Technical Operations Editor

IzzyMom really likes cookies, late nights, naps, judicious use of the F word, kitties, reading, made-for-cable shows about sexy vampires and damaged (but hot) serial killers. She does not like pointy shoes, mean people, hangovers, most forms of domesticity or being interrupted when coding. In her next life IzzyMom wants to come back as Veronica Mars. In case of emergency, you can find her procrastinating on Twitter and Facebook, carrying on about one thing or another on her personal blog, showcasing her quirky personal style at Caffeinatrix: A Compendium of Awesome and photoblogging with her daughter about the insane cuteness of interspecies animal friendships at Critterbuds.

Britt Reints aka Miss Britt ~ Production Editor

Britt Reints began blogging as “Miss Britt” in 2005. She is now a world famous superstar.

In addition to maintaining her international stardom, Britt is also a freelance writer and professional blogger. She writes for group blogs, corporate blogs and travel blogs. Britt also founded Buy-Her.com, an online shopping blog for women. In the summer of 2011, Britt and her family will be leaving their Central Florida home behind to travel across the United States. While her husband drives, she’ll be responding to autograph requests on Twitter.

Britt never misses a deadline and rarely changes out of her pajamas. Because showering is optional when you’re a world famous superstar.

Faiqa Khan ~ Managing Editor

Woman, daughter, sister, friend, wife, mother and architect of a mostly benevolent plan of future world domination.

There will be ice cream and Dr. Pepper for everyone.

Faiqa can be found at her personal blog at Native Born or listened to on the Hey! That’s My Hummus! podcast. Short bursts of Faiqa can also be experienced on Twitter, as well.

 

Una – Content Editor

Una LaMarche is a writer, editor, and amateur Melrose Place historian who lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband, her Slanket, her developing fetus, and her hoard of vintage Sassy magazines. By the time she was five, Una had developed a truly spectacular unibrow, which was unfortunate given her name but which formed the basis for her self-deprecating sense of humor… and her Peter Gallagher obsession (did you know he released a country album in 2005?) As a child growing up in New York City, Una dreamed of becoming a bus driver. But then she went to Wesleyan (the college in Connecticut with the naked dorms), smoked pot while watching The Labyrinth, and decided to major in film. After a few years of working on the types of historical public television documentaries that cast Brian Dennehy as LBJ and feature slow-motion horseback riding, she defected and became a writer instead. Today Una is the managing editor of The New York Observer, writes for  The Huffington Post,  reviews bad movies for a weekly magazine in Las Vegas, and blogs as much as her reality TV-watching schedule allows on her personal site, The Sassy Curmudgeon, which she started in 2006 as a way to bring shame to her family. You can find her on Twitter under the handle @sassycurmudgeon. If she’s not there, she’s probably trolling the internet for celebrity blind items or bulk candy.

JW Moxie – Special Operations Editor

JW Moxie has a BS in BS, but someone thought it was a good idea to make her responsible for educating adolescents. She does a good impression of an 8th Grade English teacher by day, but by night she’s a gangsta nerd superhero. She wishes she could clone copies of her husband Frank to sell; he is that awesome. Despite Moxie’s best efforts, their four children (ages 6-10) refuse to be corrupted into doing her evil bidding. Moxie is in love with carbohydrates and in hate with writing bios. She blogs at The Smartness and Tweets @JWMoxie. Word.