Jean Ellen Whatley
Jean Ellen Whatley
- Location
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Birthday
- April 24
- Bio
- Subscribing to the notion that we're all more alike than different, Jean Ellen Whatley feels privileged in her self-appointed role of cockeyed purveyor of our human condition. She's both perceptive and profuse, sometimes profound, rarely punctual and given to alliteration. An Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist, Jean has provided countless hours of live reports on everything from murder to mayhem, and prize winning pickles at state fairs from North Carolina to New Mexico. Whatley never skipped on any restaurant tabs. She has attracted a growing following on her blog, A Woman With a Past: The Post Apocalyptic Approach to Men which will soon be available on Amazon.com. Operators are standing by. Her current project, Off the Leash: Road Stories With My Dog is the next installment of her memoir, only this one REALLY moves, literally and figuratively. Jean earned critical acclaim for her screenplay, THE LOVE YOU NEED, in the Cinema St. Louis screenplay competition, but no movie deal. She was recently a finalist in a nationwide writing competition sponsored by, SheWrites, a Web-based women's writing forum with more than 15,000 members. She’s been published in MORE.com, has been a guest columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Winston-Salem Journal and the Albuquerque Journal and a guest host on KMOX (CBS) radio in St. Louis.
Jean is the proud parent of four, remarkably well adjusted, mostly grown-up kids and two mutts. In her spare time, she cleans up the poop, the dogs’ that is.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Because We Still Can
January 01, 2013 01:59AM - Off the Leash Road Stories is
Moving!
August 17, 2012 06:20PM - Deep End of the Pool
August 09, 2012 12:48PM - Anatomy of a Day
August 02, 2012 12:02AM - Keep Pedaling
July 29, 2012 06:30PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Alysa,
You are a
generous and good hearted
person -- you've been a
friend
and comp…”
January 01, 2013 01:47AM - “Unbreakable -- you are a
loyal fan and an amazing
writer in
your own right.
Thank…”
January 01, 2012 10:28PM - “Beautiful. In this day
and age of hand sanitizers and
heads
down virtual
preoccu…”
December 29, 2011 12:30PM - “A puff is a pack. I'm
hooked. I followed the smoke
trail from
Cognitive
Dissonanc…”
December 29, 2011 11:47AM - “Cog,
Simple and
true. Thank
you.
Jean”
September 27, 2011 07:10PM
Jean Ellen Whatley's Links
I’m taking my dog on a road trip. Not a short one, a long one. It’ll be about 8,400 miles, more or less, by the time we get back home. Lord knows what I’ll find when I return. I planted drought resistant flowers just to hedge my bets. I hope they… Read full post »
Until my mother’s stroke took her voice away, the grand dame
of story telling used to preface the 100th recitation of the same
Okie anecdote she’d told 99 times before by saying,
“have I told you this story?” and then claim jump the
pregnant pause which followed by adding &ld… Read full post »
Twas the season.
So, I invited my ex-husband to Christmas Eve dinner.
I figured he wouldn’t have too many invitations, with him fresh out of prison and all. However, I did ponder it for a few days before I actually picked up the phone. I conferred with the kids, they… Read full post »
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