Greetin's, my name is Josh and I hail from the boondocks of the north Georgia foothills. I'm a self-taught writer and journalist and like to think of myself as a modern day bard, telling the stories of others as well as those of my own making. If I'd have been around a few hundred years earlier I can well see myself strolling from town to town with a pack on my back, a tale on my tongue, holes in my boots and likely a touch of the plague. I'm told I was born to be a story teller, speaking my first words by four months (almost causing my aunt to wreck the car) and spinning yarns and singing before I was a year old.

Despite this I never really began writing seriously til I was approaching my teens, (I'd wanted to be a paleontologist!). I'd been inspired to write some poetry and then read this great biography on C.S. Lewis who wrote the Chronicles of Narnia (yes, they were books). After that I realized just how much I enjoyed putting down whatever came into my head into words.

I think my main strength is I see mystery and beauty in nigh everything. For me a stone is never just a stone or a cup just a cup. To this day I love a good fairy tale and am told I'm a hopeless romantic.

When I write about an artist I see it much as an epic, a man or woman with a God given talent each in their own way struggling for recognition or to fulfill a dream. It's very much an adventure and that's the way I tell it.

I'd known Debbie, Krystina and their family most of my life, my best friends, so when they asked me if I was interested in doing articles for some magazine they'd thought up I was like, 'Well, pshh, yeah!'. I'd always been a music lover, play the piano and panpipes myself, but had never been much of one to keep up with who was singing what, who was who, and not even opened a music magazine before. That got fixed in a hurry, especially as I heard interviews and met people and realized how cool some of these folks were. Still not one to get starry eyed over the legends, seeing them just as folks with some awesome talent, maybe a bigger house, fame, cooler shoes and more money than I'll ever see... but still plenty mortal. It probably shows in my articles and I think a lot of them appreciate that.

Anyways, that's me. Now go check out the other staffers, they're cool to.