Laurie White

Laurie White is a writer, photographer, and perpetual eldest child from the small but mighty state of Maryland (plus five important formative years in Southwest Ohio.) A lifelong writer, blogging saved her life in the spring of 2005, when she stumbled across a link to TypePad in a post-breakup haze and LaurieWrites just...happened (not a name she'd pick now, but at that time it seemed to get the point across.) 

Blogging about music, politics, pop culture and all things random about daily life next door to the nation's capital led to a gift of a gig as a contributing editor at BlogHer, where she currently writes about pets and family. Other words appear at AGirlMustShop.com, and a bunch of DC-area print publications. Last fall, thanks to all of these online shenanigans, she began a master's program in online journalism after a decade as a counselor, social worker and occasional freelance writer. A year, a trip to Vietnam and many hysterical deadlines later, it's safe to say it's all about words, pictures and people from here. (And yes, Mom, there will (hopefully) be health insurance.)

Laurie still lives in D.C.'s Maryland suburbs, where she bosses around/loves dearly a menagerie of family and friends of all ages and is addicted to her Nikon D80 and Canon PowerShot630, Flickr, hazelnut coffee, music, Bravo, New York City, all manner of magazines, the Internet, good food, the idea of the ocean, travel to anywhere under the sun and little dogs. Her next projects include the very-much-in-development food and culture site ringtumdiddy.com and an anthology of essays on the impact of Lloyd Dobler on way too many GenX women.