About Us

The Team

Living in: Atlanta, GA
Originally from: Spring Valley, NY
At Uptown Scoop.com: Vice President Marketing & Alliances
At Home: Loving mother of 3 awesome children, ages 10 years & 22 months (fraternal twins) and a devoted wife.
Q&A:
- What’s always by my bed: Pen, pad and a bottled water
- My family: My motivation
- Words I live by: Life is short…seize each moment like it is your last
- I’d like to learn: How to do sign language
- I am most proud of: Being a Duke graduate
- What keeps me awake at night: Drive for success / High expectations of self and others
- I am guilty of: Not taking enough “ME” time

Living in: Durham, NC
Originally from: Just down “Tobacco Road” in Chapel Hill, NC
At Uptown Scoop.com: Writer
At Home: Child wrangler to Annabel (5) and Phoebe (2.5), neighborhood activist, married to a soccer-playing, recycling guru
Q&A:
- My best friend says I: Should run for mayor.
- What I know now I wish I’d known when I was younger: It’ll all work out. Really.
- What’s always by my bed: A juicy novel and a stack of New Yorkers.
- My mother always told me: Your sense of humor will get you further in life than anything else.
- I still can’t get the hang of: Flossing.
- The most important thing I ever lost: Diaries from the time I spent living in Paris.
- I am inspired by: My amazing girlfriends.

Living in: Atlanta
Originally from: Atlanta, GA
At Uptown Scoop.com: Writer
At Work: Web editor of travelgirl magazine, newspaper columnist for The Reporter newspapers and editorial director of Schroder Public Relations
At Home: One darling daughter in college, one sweet boy who is a junior in high school who still likes me, talks to me and makes me laugh every day and a sweet husband who thinks I’m cute even when I don’t feel like it
Q&A:
- What’s always by my bed: a stack of books, a pile of unread New Yorker magazines and my favorite photo of my children
- My work: stresses me out with constant deadlines, but somehow keeps me partially sane at the same time
- Words I live by: 90 percent of life is just showing up. It’s better to be kind than to be right.
- My favorite possession: my wedding ring. It’s made with diamonds that were in my mother’s wedding band and my husband had it reset so it’s a connection to both of them
- The most important thing I ever lost: my mother
  I am guilty of: I grew up Catholic and have been a mom for 20 years – don’t get me started on guilt

Living in: Austin, TX
Originally from: Dallas, TX
At Uptown Scoop.com: Writer
At Work: Freelance writer
At Home: Adventure-seeking world traveler, Big Sister, and "the Cool Aunt"
Q&A:
- Favorite superstition: I’LL NEVER SAY “CANDY MAN” IN FRONT OF THE MIRROR.
- My best friend says I am: AN AMUSING SOURCE OF ENTERTAINING MISADVENTURES.
- What I know now I wish I’d known when I was younger: BALANCE.
- What’s always by my bed: SOMETHING TO READ & MY TRUSTY EIFFEL TOWER LAMP
- My work: IS MY PASSION
- My family: IS MY REASON
- Words I live by: LIFE IS SHORT
- My theme song: “DON’T STOP BELIEVING” - JOURNEY
- I still can’t get the hang of: CHOPSTICKS
- My favorite possession: MY PASSPORT (AND MY LAPTOP)
- I am inspired by: OSCAR WILDE & ANAIS NIN
- I am guilty of: DRINKING TOO MUCH DR PEPPER

Living in: San Francisco, CA
Originally from: New Jersey
At Uptown Scoop.com: Contributing Editor/Writer
At Work: Freelance Writer/Editor
At Home: I daydream about the novel I’m going to write one day and drink way too much hazelnut coffee.
Q&A:
- What’s always by my bed: Kiehl’s lip stuff, eye drops.
- My work: is fun as I get to be creative.
- Words I live by: Life’s too short. If you’re not doing brain surgery, don’t stress it.
- I am most proud of: my unique ability to accessorize and my super sharp memory.
- One thing I never want to do again: Climb Mount Snow
- I still can’t get the hang of: knitting.
- My favorite possession: a photo of me as a little girl with my dad (in a funky frame).
- What keeps me awake at night: The noisy woman living above me.
- I am guilty of: Shopping way too much.

Living in: Brooklyn, NY
Originally from: Albany, NY
At Uptown Scoop.com: Illustrator
At Work: Fashion assistant/Freelance Illustrator
At Home: Creative busy-body, constantly wondering what is around the corner.
Q&A:
- Favorite superstition: Balancing on one foot in the elevator.
- What I’m never asked at parties that I wish people would ask: Did it hurt when you fell out of heaven?
- I am most proud of: http://www.juliadurgee.com
- One thing I never want to do again: Indoor rock-climbing
- The world would be a better place if only: .. we cared about it…?
- My favorite possession: “Defending your Life” – movie directed by Albert Brooks, 1991