J. Rohr: has a taste for history and midnight barbeques. A graduate of Depaul University, he studied creative writing under National Book Award Winner Larry Heinemann. He believes that every cynic is the by-product of failed romanticism, he himself being one. Having recently finished a novella entitled Home Sweet Homicide: a tale of reasonable madness, he is operating the blog www.honestyisnotcontagious.com to deal with some of the more corrosive aspects of everyday life.