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Deborah Wuehler
Senior Editor
Roseville, CA
Deborah Wuehler is the Senior Editor, Chapel editor, and Devotional editor for TOS. She resides in Roseville, California, with her husband, Richard, and their seven gifts from heaven. She loves digging for buried treasure in the Word, reading, writing, homeschooling, and dark chocolate!
www.HomeschoolBlogger.com/DevDoorDeborah
Susan Spann
Senior Contributing Writer
Sacramento, CA
Susan Spann is a partner in the law firm Llewellyn Spann, where she specializes in copyright, trademark, and corporate law. Formerly a professor at Trinity Law School in Santa Ana, California, she currently teaches business law at William Jessup University. She blogs on legal issues from a Christian worldview at www.HomeschoolBlogger. com/SusanSpann.

Dr. Heather Allen
Senior Analytical Consultant
Heather Allen and Associates, Inc.
Edgewood, NM

Heather Allen is TOS’s Town Square chief contributing writer and Senior Analytical Consultant. She has a PhD in Experimental Psychology, served as an Aerospace Experimental Psychologist in the US Navy, and worked 11 years for Sandia National Laboratories. She and her husband Steve have homeschooled their five children for nine years.
Paula Moldenhauer
Contributing Writer
Denver, CO
A homeschooling mother of four, Paula Moldenhauer is passionate about God’s grace. She is published in magazines, book compilations, and devotionals. Paula loves hiking, cuddling her kids, good books, and walking barefoot. Her website, www.soulscents.us, offers homeschooling hints, book reviews, and a free weekly devotional.

Christine Field
Special Needs Review Consultant
Senior Contributing Correspondent

Wheaton, IL
Christine M. Field, TOS’s Resource Room columnist, practiced law for eight years before becoming a full-time mommy for her four children. Her husband serves as Chief of Police in Wheaton, Illinois. She is a freelance writer and the author of several books about homeschooling, adopting, and more. www.HomeFieldAdvantage.org www.HomeschoolBlogger.com/ChristineField
Diane Wheeler
Contributing Writer
El Dorado County, CA
Diane Wheeler, chief contributor to TOS’s Home Ec column, and her husband John have fi ve children. Diane enjoys gardening, photography, working in her art journal, corresponding with friends, reading, staring out her favorite window, and laughing—all with a mug of dark roast decaf within reach.

Amelia Harper
Contributing Media Editor
HomeScholar Books, Nashville, NC
Amelia Harper is a homeschooling mother of fi ve and pastor’s wife. She is the author of Literary Lessons from the Lord of the Rings, a complete one-year literature curriculum for secondary level students. She is also a freelance writer for newspapers and magazines.
www.HomeScholarBooks.com
www.HomeschoolBlogger.com/MiddleEarthMom
Nancy Carter
Contributing Writer
Elkton, KY
Nancy Carter, Senior Editor for HomesteadBlogger. com, is a homesteading, homeschooling wife and mother of three sons. She enjoys blogging with the other homesteaders at www.HomesteadBlogger.com/ HSBFrontPorch and writing for The Natural Schoolhouse. Her family enjoys a lifestyle of learning on their farm in Kentucky.

Kate Kessler
Product Reviews Manager
Contributing Writer

Sacramento, CA
Kate Kessler and her delightful husband, Mark, an IT mastermind, enjoy their fi ve splendid children. As a Classical/ Charlotte Mason homeschooler, she enjoys a varied curriculum, historical fiction, and the many discussions that come up as a result of learning together. She loves living under God’s grace and mercy through Christ. www.HomeschoolBlogger.com/underthesky.
Tia Linschied
Contributing Writer
Prineville, OR
Tia Linschied is the Senior Editor for HomeschoolBlogger.com. She and her husband, Todd, enjoy homeschooling their four children in the high desert, as well as camping, geocaching, and blogging. Come visit her on the HSB Company Porch at www.HomeschoolBlogger. com/HSBCompanyBlog or on her personal blog at www.HomeschoolBlogger.com/sagerats.

Ken Ham
Contributing Writer
Florence, KY
Ken Ham, TOS’s Real Science columnist, is president of Answers in Genesis, host of “Answers with Ken Ham,” editor and writer for Answers magazine, and author of several books on Creation and the Bible. Ken and his wife Mally have homeschooled their five children.
www.AnswersinGenesis.org
Jennifer Pepito
Contributing Writer
Baja, Mexico
Jennifer Pepito is a homeschooling mom of six and freelance writer, married for 16 years to her best friend, Scott. Their family ministry, Firm Foundations, provides opportunities for homeschooling families to experience short-term missions in Baja, Mexico. For more information, email her at jennpepito@yahoo.com.
www.HomeschoolBlogger.com/esperanzavallero

Kim Wolf
Contributing Writer
West Milton, OH
Kim Wolf loves living in a small Ohio town with her husband of 21 years and their two teen daughters. They have homeschooled since 1993 and are very active in the music ministry of their church. She is a Miami County homeschool coordinator, a freelance writer, speaker, and Ohio coordinator for TOS. www.HomeschoolBlogger.com/BuckeyeBlog
Jennifer Steward
Contributing Writer
Georgetown, CA
Jennifer Steward contributes to TOS’s Homeschool Units column and is a humorous and encouraging speaker, drawing from her 20 years’ experience homeschooling her eight children. She is the author of books on unit studies, organization, and many more. www.UnitStudies.com

Tina Rice
Contributing Writer
Epworth, GA
Tina Rice and her husband, Tim, homeschool their four children using an eclectic mix of classical and relaxed materials. She is in her twelfth year of homeschooling, with eleven more to go. When Tina is not schooling, reading, or writing, she is busy making tie-dye clothing and gifts.
She blogs at www.HomeschoolBlogger.com/tiner.
Nancy Baetz
Contributing Writer
Colorado
Nancy Baetz and her husband Ken have four children. Nancy enjoys learning with her children about God’s creation, and she lives for Summer! She also likes to write about her experience as a homeschooling mom, takes zillions of photographs as a freelance photographer, and spends as much time as she can in her wildflower patch! www.HomeschoolBlogger.com/ByHisGraceInColorado

Terri Johnson
Contributing Artist
San Antonio, TX
Terri Johnson is the creator of Knowledge Quest maps and timelines. Her mission for the company is to help make the teaching and learning of history and geography enjoyable for both teacher and students. Her Blackline Maps of World History have been widely recommended in the homeschooling community and beyond. Terri is married to Todd, and they have fi ve children.
Jane Bullivant
Contributing Writer
Midlands, England
Jane Bullivant and her husband, Darren, enjoy homeschooling their three turbocharged children. She is an international homeschool writer, speaker, and author of Skydiving for Parents and Dear Lord, I Feel Like a Whale! Visit her at www.HomeschoolBlogger.com/livingheritageuk.

Mayrbeth Whalen
Contributing Writer
Charlotte, NC
Marybeth Whalen is the wife of Curt and mom of six children, ages 14 to 1. The family has homeschooled for ten years. Marybeth is the author of For the Write Reason, a speaker for Proverbs 31 Ministries, and a freelance writer. Learn more about Marybeth through her blog at www.HomeschoolBlogger.com/marybeth.
Bruce Garrision
Contributing Writer
Newark, England
Bruce Garrison is husband to homeschooling mom Pippa and dad to Josiah (12) and Bethany (10). Bruce and Pippa are involved in Living Heritage, a new organization for Christian homeschoolers in the United Kingdom. Bruce is also editor of Searchlight magazine, which publishes classic Christian writers in languages and dialects around the world. www.searchlight-missions.org

Carolyn Hurst
Contributing Writer
Poulsbo, WA
As publisher of the award-winning Draw•Write• Now® books, Carolyn Hurst has spent the last decade researching how children learn to draw and the benefits of teaching directed drawing. She is also a freelance writer. She, her husband Steve, and their two children enjoy a variety of animals on their farm. www.Barker-Creek.com
Dena Wood
Contributing Writer
Eastern WA
Dena and her husband, John, have been homeschooling their fi ve children since 1991. Dena is co-owner of Trigger Memory Systems, publisher of Times Tales, marketer of nontraditional, creative educational materials, and freelance writer. She also works as a Research Consultant for TOS and blogs at www.HomeschoolBlogger.com/redmom. www.TriggerMemorySystem.com

Deb Turner
Contributing Writer
New Hartford, NY
Deb Turner has been homeschooling for 20 years and is thrilled to have yet another 10 to go. She and her husband, Craig, have fi ve children and three grandchildren. Craig works as a mechanical engineer, while Deb enjoys raising her children and loving up her grandchildren. She also enjoys writing and gardening. www.HomeschoolBlogger.com/pattycake
Michael “Hap” Halpin
Contributing Cartoonist
Haptoon Comics
Citrus Heights, CA

Michael F. Halpin (“Hap”), creator of cartoons since he could pick up a crayon, seeks to use his abilities to glorify Jesus and edify His body. Subscribe to Hap’s mailing list by emailing him at Haptoon@juno.com, visit his site at www.Haptoon.com, or fi nd his work on www.ChristianCartoons.com.

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