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THE CONTRIBUTORS
Carolyn Bucior
creator writer producer host
After graduating with a BS in journalism from the University of Illinois in 1981, Carolyn held an embarrassingly brief position as national/international news editor for the Virgin Islands Daily News, then quit to pursue a career as a seaside waitress and house painter.
Since returning to journalism 23 years ago, she has twice won first-place feature-writing awards from the Milwaukee Press Club and has written more than 400 healthcare articles, numerous feature articles and humor columns for the Chicago Tribune, Milwaukee Magazine and Parenting Magazine.
Carolyn recently completed her first book, 2 is the New 3, a personal narrative which asks, "Can two people be a legitimate family?"
The book is ready to go and has been professionally edited by Lary Bloom, who edited the New York Times best-selling memoir My Old Man and the Sea. She is currently looking for an agent.
Kit Behling
writer producer host
There’s nothing like a Catholic grade school education to grind the love of writing right out of you. So Kit thought, until she found SMWD – or rather, it found her. There, Kit rediscovered the storyteller self she’d abandoned in third grade when Sr. Mary Conjugata went a little nuts with the red pen.
Professionally Kit is The Training Kit, a corporate wordsmith and business writing instructor; at home, she’s a micromanaging wife and mother. But in her creative life, Kit’s just another SMWD writer, gathered at Carolyn’s dining room table to craft true tales from the relationship front lines.
Mel Miskimen
writer producer host
Mel, a childhood nickname, short for Melonhead (don’t ask), didn’t come to writing from the ranks of Journalism or English. She came to it via life, kids, a brief interlude with creative writing, a few seminars and workshops. She figured if it would have been something she made a living at, it would have taken all the fun out of it. Mel is the author of Cop’s Kid: A MIlwaukee Memoir and a stand up comic.
Mary Olen
Retired Therapist featured guest
Mary earned her nursing degree in 1972 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But she never liked hospitals, and so she tried her hand at public health nursing in Milwaukee, in an effort to keep other people out of hospitals.
After earning a master's degree in community mental health nursing in 1981, she practiced as a psychotherapist for a lucky 13 years, then got into management, consulting, and then back to management. She lived in Milwaukee all of her life until a few years after her husband died. She remarried and moved to Madison (90 miles away) when she was 50 years old.
Writing has always been a hobby for her and a way of staying sane – journaling, morbid poetry, funny rhymes, short stories about life and observations of others' lives keeps her from screaming obscenities at other drivers and at fast-food workers she can't understand over drive-through intercoms.
Kari Anderson
SMWD Arts and Entertainment writer
By day, Kari Anderson works as associate editor for a publishing company in upstate New York. By night, she writes SMWD's arts and entertainment reviews. When she realized her first marriage was heading south, Kari got her poop in a group and finished up her bachelor's degree in communication from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, circa Y2K. After nine years of staying home with her two sons, she re-entered the workforce in 2001, delighted to have a job with a paycheck and formal hours. She has since remarried and now has a baby daughter with hubby #2. In her rapidly depleting free time, Kari plays the harp and piano, and is attempting to learn the banjo. Really.
Karen Dredge
SMWD Arts and Entertainment writer
Karen was born in Hollywood, California at the same time the Ford Thunderbird and Disneyland came into being. As those icons have been updated for the 21st century. Karen has not. She has all her original parts and her mileage has not been turned back. And she claims that her fantasyland rides are just fine. Thank you very much.
She maintains a tenuous hold on reality in that she resides in Wisconsin, but her head lives in Hollywood.
As a child growing up in California, Sundays were not spent in church; she would instead peruse her own Gospel. The Los Angeles Times Sunday TV Guide. Through this, she would plan her coming sick days accordingly. Clark Gable and Jeannette McDonald in San Francisco on Tuesday at 9 am on Channel 9. Stomachache in the morning. Dark Victory on Friday at 2 pm on Channel 11. Headache at lunchtime. Plenty of time for mom to get the call, pick Karen up and run her back home so she could stretch out on the couch in the darkened den and watch Bette Davis die from her own headache.
While in high school Karen would call herself and her best friend in sick to the attendance office, so they could jump into her 1964 Rambler Classic convertible, complete with map to the Hollywood stars’ homes in the glove box, to drive the hills and flatlands of LA all day stalking stars. She has many stories of almost meeting movie stars. But most of all she loves movies. She watches one a day, manages to have a family, a full-time job and, seems to work on less than 6 hours of sleep.
She is happy to write these reviews and hopes that others will see the humor, pathos, and artistry in a medium that she so loves. She is married, has been single, divorced, and she knows some widows.
