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  1. Southern Literary Trail App

    During the summer I had the honor of helping on a Deep South Magazine project; the Southern Literary Trail app, available on iTunes via Sutro Media. I wasn't the only one who helped, it was a group effort from the interns and contributors of Deep South Magazine with our illustrious leader Erin Z. Bass at the helm. In 2010, Erin Z. Bass founded Deep South Magazine, an online publication that connects  Read more >

  2. Volunteer Your Kids

    As I always do, well just about every morning, around 0230 this morning I tumbled out of bed to find my way to the kitchen and poured myself a bowl of cereal.  Read more >

  3. NYC, Wishful Travel Planning Part VI

    What to find out what kind of New Yorker you are? Take this quiz and find out. My results: You Are an Explorer  Read more >

Carol Marks

Full Name
Carol Marks
Member Since
August 2007
About Me: 
Hi, I'm Carol Marks. I live in the south but I wasn't born and bred here. I grew up in a small town in southern Ohio. Landing in Alabama more than 20 years ago, I now call the south my home. I like to consider myself a writer although I am not famously published anywhere. One day I will be though. 

For now, my day job is keeping the lights on. I work as a business manager for a small business in government contracting. I also served five years in the United States Navy where I was stationed in Washington, DC for four years.

I am a mom to two teenage kids (The Girl and The Boy). Their father, and my husband, passed away in June 2005. In the fall of 2008, I remarried a wonderful, kind, and loving man whom I refer to here on the blog as The Gent. He is a true saint for taking all three of us on with no prior experience. I stand in awe of him. He makes me want to be a better person and a better mother.

At Carol Marks Online I hope to keep you entertained and interested in my writing about what's going on here in our area. It is my dream to be a successful writer, preferably a travel writer. There, I typed it out loud for all to see.

Other things I'm interested in; knitting, movie watching, socializing (although my face to face friend network has diminished drastically), networking, Project Runway (even though I have no earthly idea how to operate a sewing machine, nor do I know one stitch about fashion), reading, and, of course, writing. I like writing the best.

For a few years, I lived in dark times but I think the light is finally beginning to shine at the end of the tunnel (when I choose to see it). I know I’ve messed up as a human being, friend, employee, mother, and wife but I have tried my best to clean up the wreckage of my past. I’m still cleaning. It will always be a continuous effort.

Our family has a dog (Jack) and a cat (Jill). I promise not to blog about them too much. I mainly post about them on Facebook, so I think the blog is safe.

Anyway, play hard but play nice. I really, really dislike nasty people.




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