Jean Ellen Whatley

A Woman With a Past Is Off the Leash

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

Editor’s Pick
JUNE 15, 2011 1:07AM

Off the Leash: Road Stories With My Dog

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 »

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APRIL 1, 2011 2:49AM

I Will if You Will


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 »

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DECEMBER 30, 2010 5:57PM

Peace, Goodwill Towards the Old Man

 

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 »