My Wheels are Turning

Guest contributors

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	Bill Palladino is owner and principal consultant for Krios Consulting based in Traverse City. He provides strategy planning and leadership development for businesses and organizations around the world. In July of 2009 he gave away his perfectly good car, committing to ride his bike every day when at home. He can often be seen making his way to meetings around town on one of his fixed gear bikes with his brief case slung over his back and a sly smile on his face.
	Lee Maynard grew up swimming, building forts and climbing trees with lots of pets in Athens, GA. After crashing with friends in Chicago and Portland she moved to Traverse City last June. She absolutely loves her job working for the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy as an Engagement Specialist and living Up North. According to Deering’s Meat Market gossip, she has a “wafty” bike riding reputation and does not pay careful enough attention while cruising around town. She’ll try to improve on that and says, “sorry y’all!”
	Henry Morgenstein is either in Traverse City or Southampton, England. Most people in TC know him as that guy on the bike riding past them on the campus of Northwestern Michigan College where he taught English for thirty years. Or, you might know him from his Radio Talk series on WNMC FM90.7. Or, you might have heard him calling a contra dance or two. Either way, you haven’t forgot him. You can read more about Henry at henryandjacqui.com
	Susan Fawcett is a Petoskey native, international wanderer. She works as a free-lance illustrator, botanist and fiddler throughout Michigan and recently moved to Marquette for cross-country skiing opportunities and the biology masters program at NMU. She is a member of the Earthwork Music Collective and serves on the board of ISLAND, the Institute for Sustainable Living, Art and Natural Design. She will be contributing some real scribbles art.
	Peter Spaulding lives and works in Traverse City where he is a freelance urban designer and planning consultant. He is co-founder of Placework DG and a graduate of the Urban and Regional Planning program at the University of Michigan.
	Chester is the cantankerous but intelligent hippie alter ego of a local who wears a suit to work, looks as straight edged as possible, and has to work with many of the people he’d like to “roast”. (The image at the right does not resemble Chester in the slightest).

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