Linda Buzzell, 2/17/12

Psychotherapist, ecotherapist, co-editor of "Ecotherapy: Healing With Nature in Mind"

Washington, Jefferson, Adams and Madison were all obsessively in love with their own gardens, farms, plants and the enthralling natural vistas of the new nation.

Joel Sucher, 2/17/12

Joel Sucher, a New York film maker,, is working on "Foreclosure Diaries," a documentary about the financial crisis.

For all his blemishes, Ron Paul has demonstrated that there is still a constituency that can be called on to hoist principle above political expediency.

William K. Black, 2/17/12

Assoc. Professor, Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City; Sr. regulator during S&L debacle

I hereby nominate Karlgaard and "cold loathing" friends as the charter members of Christians Against Morality, Equity, Liberty, and Same-sex marriage (CAMELS). All meetings will be held at "Eye of the Needle" bar, however, so entry is likely to prove impossible for the charter members.

Jeff Biggers, 2/17/12

Journalist and author, 'Reckoning at Eagle Creek' and 'In the Sierra Madre'

In the footsteps of legendary Tucson Mayor Estevan Ochoa, who also fought against a hairbrained legislature to bring public education into Arizona, Arce has emerged as one of the most beloved leaders in the state today.

Josh Fleet, 2/17/12

Associate Editor, HuffPost Religion

And these are the laws you should set before the Children of Israel.

Lev Raphael, 2/17/12

Author and reviewer

In the Nick Hoffman series, Nick ages and is definitely changed by the deaths he encounters. His relationship with Stefan develops, too. Depicting a loving gay couple over time, and under stress, has been one of the joys of this series.

Arielle Ford, 2/17/12

Publicist and Author

Webinars, and especially teleseminars, are great ways to establish your reputation as an expert, grow your email database, and captivate your audience with great content.

Nancy Chuda, 2/17/12

Founder of LuxEco Living and Healthy Child Healthy World

Time spent raising our kids to become decent, well-meaning, law abiding citizens. But what many missed as parents in the '80s is what some never had time to teach. Peace. I was lucky. I was raised in a household that celebrated humanity and the need for world peace.

Scott Alexander Hess, 2/16/12

Author, 'Diary of a Sex Addict' and 'Bergdorf Boys'

At my first book signing a small crowd lined up, but what happened next, and what continued to occur at my next few events, was the repetition of a central question: "Where did you get the idea for the book?" In that moment, I drew a blank.

Carol Hoenig, 2/16/12

Freelance writer, publishing consultant

Human nature often encourages us to live in the present but when the present has little to offer, the past becomes much more important to a daughter wanting to know much more about her father.

Red Room, 2/17/12

Online home of many of the world's greatest writers

Can't find the time to write? Life is short. Stop with the angst, already. If you're not writing, you don't really want to. Go find something that yanks your chain. Do that, and leave us writers alone.

D. R. Tucker, 2/16/12

Freelance writer; operator, The Urban Right blog

The images of extreme violence in South Boston and Charlestown in the fall of 1974 are still so lurid and so disturbing that one can't help wondering what exactly drives human beings to such behavior.

Dan Kovalik, 2/16/12

Human and Labor Rights Lawyer

I just had the pleasure of reading an important new book entitled, Cocaine, Death Squads and the War on Terror (U.S. Imperialism and Class Struggle in Colombia).

Jessica Pearce Rotondi, 2/16/12

Associate Editor, HuffPost Women

Whether you fell asleep at night clutching a copy of Ramona Quimby or Gone With The Wind, the books we read as kids shape the women we become -- sometimes in complicated ways.

Debra Ollivier, 2/16/12

Contributing editor and writer at large, Huff/Post50

Hilma Wolitizer's novel An Available Man is about a quirky 62-year-old science teacher and widower whose stepdaughters place a personal ad for him, and he finds himself besieged by women. His wife's spirit accompanies him as he grapples with renewed life, loss, love, and sex.

Ari Berman, 2/16/12

Author, 'Herding Donkeys'

If you want to know how the moneyed class, who prospered during the Bush and Clinton years, found a way to kill or water down nearly everything it objected to in the Obama years, look no further than the grip of the 1% of the 1% on our political system.

Oscar Raymundo, 2/16/12

Magnet Book Club

The outdoor orgies of yesteryear have been replaced by outdoor patio furniture stores, but luckily the gritty South of Market spirit has been cleverly captured by Kemble Scott in SoMa.