ArykaNotErika is a cheap-wine-drinking, tattoo-having, plenty-pierced liberal hippie residing in the Washington DC area. When not rabble- rousing or picketing, she can be found cooking, gardening, reading, tweeting (ArykaNotErika) and planning her great escape to Nepal. She is the mother of one human (if teenage girls count as human ) and one large dog that thinks he is a small child. As soon as it is legal in her home state, she will be wife to one crazy lady musician that has had her heart since she was 13.

ArykaNotErika is the face of depression, body image issues, anxiety and is the child of an addict. She works in whatever capacity she is told to for the Band and only occasionally asks for vodka or cupcakes in return.

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Caroline embraces life as a borderline bipolar, plays cow bell for The Band, starred in Titanic (Floating Body #2), created Teh Internetz, and taught J Lo how to be a Fly Girl. She enjoys ellipses, profanity and sarcasm, beginning her sentences with "so," and Cuban coffee. She's a (struggling) freelance writer whose oddest assignment basically amounted to writing porn for spiders.

She's been doing the single mom thing since she was abandoned at 20 weeks pregnant and forced to relocate from VA to FL. Pregnancy was no barrel of laughs as she dealt with anger, Hyperemesis Gravadarium, depression, and anxiety. Despite all her fears of not bonding and being a shittastic parent, Momma and The Kiddo fell in love at birth sight.

In her marginally read blog, My Daily Diatribes, she rants about news issues, her battles with self-doubt, being a survivor of sexual assault and stalking, stupid parenting practices, and flashbacks courtesy of PTSD. Between a combo of therapy, medication, sarcastic remarks, caffeine, tattoos, and hugs from The Kiddo, Caro rocks at life.

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Cindy is the Google-fingering rock star who lives in a magic bus in the swamps of East Texas. She writes about being a stagehand and about finding herself after 40 on her personal blog. And she says f*ck a lot on The Twitter. She's a survivor and she's with the band.

David is a very lucky husband of 13 years, a proud parent (of 10 and 6 years respectively) and a life-long unrepentant geek.  He works as a marketing statistician to support his fledgling career as a writer and game designer.  David grew up with the Muppets and Mr. Rogers' Land of Make Believe, and feels indebted to their creators for convincing him it is okay to imagine a better world.  He is incredibly proud to be a contributor to Band Back Together.

On a daily basis he struggles with anxiety, but recently he has been getting the upper hand - mostly. In his personal life, David has a reputation for being grouchy, but he assures you that it's most likely just another migraine or sinus headache and not directed at you at all.

He is active on Twitter (@Doc_Blue), Google+, and his own eclectic blog, in that order.

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Dawn is a lover of all things coffee and cupcake. Aside from her work here with The Band, she's active in philanthropic efforts through her day job and in the local community. When she isn't blogging, she's collecting books and music. She's one of the last vinyl record collectors standing. Probably.

In her blog The Dawnie Project, she's full of the snark with a hint of sarcasm. She can also be found on twitter as @mooivrouw. She's counting the days until she gets kicked off of twitter for foul language, not that she's making it a challenge or anything.

Erin is a stay-at-home mom to two daughters, who used to work in the insurance industry. She has a degree in journalism and is kick-ass at writing, which is why she has three blogs (The Cheap Wine Shrine, Confessions of a Recipe Junkie, and Mommy Life In Florida Paradise) and volunteers on a few others. She love to cook and is damn good at it, too!

Erin has way too much experience with pregnancy loss. She lost four babies and not a day goes by she doesn’t think of her angels. The reasons for the losses are unknown: nothing was ever found to be wrong with her or with the two baby girls they were able to test. She researches, Tweets, and updates facebook for the BB2G site and is one of the administrators on The Band’s Baby Loss Facebook page.

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Heather should have been a character in Steel Magnolias, but instead, she remains humble and demure in her current starring role as Wife, Mom, Graduate Student, and Registered Nurse. She is often referred to as 5 foot of woman, 7 foot of attitude, and quite resembles that comment. Her favorite foods are Stove Top Stuffing and avocado.

Heather blogs and tweets. In her spare time, she home school's her eldest child (who is brilliant and stunning), while acting as advocate and chauffeur to her son (who has a list of diagnoses that is longer than he is). She is especially adept at changing feeding tubes, getting kicked out of Social Security Offices, and finding humor in the horrible (it's a gift...).

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Jennifer is the mother of two, wife of one, and in charge of none. She comes from a long line of mental illness, depression, and general craziness. Besides flinging glitter, her other talents include cooking, sounding like she knows what she's talking about, inappropriateness, and generally being awesome. For more of her special brand of awesome, you can visit her at her own corner of the internet at The Psychobabbles.

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Jennifer Tooker is a SAHM, military wife, and general, all around, go-to gal. When she’s not talking to the people in her computer, she’s trying to keep some semblance of order in her house. She has two kids (ten and five), three furry babies (two dogs and one cat), and one husband. She has a dirty mouth and mind, mostly 'cause she lives with a sailor. Ok, ok: she admits she *may* have taught him a few things... She currently lives in her home state of South Carolina, but in 6 years has moved from SC to Virginia to Connecticut and back. You can also find her on Twitter.

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Joules is a mommy who wishes she was still a mama and hopes not to be a mom too soon. She loves comics, Tootsie Rolls, and the Teevee, and fantasizes about having her iPhone surgically implanted for time saving purposes and pure convenience when she is sans pockets. She was expelled from a cult on five separate occasions, struggles with the compulsion to eat it ALL, and has been kicking depression in the junk these past 30 years.

She's a social worker extraordinaire, a play therapist, and an empower-er of the disadvantaged, which should reasonably be extended to include herself.  She's old and she's tired and she needs a nap, but she'd rather be blogging at Lucid Lotus Life, writing resource pages for BB2G, or flinging some glittery glittah for and at The Band.

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Kadye is a college student by day, and vengeance-driven ninja by night. When she’s not helping build up the Band Back Together Social Media Empire, she works at a theatre. Not a movie theater, or “cinema” to the Brits, but a real-life stage theatre. She also works on her photography skills, memorizing the complete history of Disney, singing as loudly as possible while driving, planning the wedding of the century – no, the wedding of the millennium, and finding her blogging voice through her own blog at Gymnotechieology.

Kadye’s crowning achievement was gaining her five-and-a-half minutes of fame by getting Aunt Becky into Urban Dictionary during the John C. Mayer Epoch.

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Kristine Brite McCormick's daughter, Cora, died suddenly and unexpectedly in her arms while breastfeeding of an undetected congenital heart defect (CHD). This wasn't Kristine's first run-in with tragedy. At nine years old, her father died in an accident.

She battles anxiety, depression, and PTSD. But, in spite of everything, she's a firm optimist that believes the world is full of love and light.  Except when she's writing a cover letter or unpacking after a trip, because those things just suck. In 2010, she was a Bloganthropy awards finalist for her work on spreading the word about CHD screening in social media. Kristine and her husband live in Indianapolis with two super badly behaved dogs. She blogs at Cora's Story.

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LA Girl is a student, retail slave, and book writer who is kicking ass and taking names. When she's not writing resources pages or editing for The Band, she's writing at Girl Relocated. In the little free time she has when she's not off being amazing, she's spending time with her boyfriend and dog, being crafty, and putting together prefabricated furniture. Her dream is to own all of Ikea.

Lindsey, aka L-Diggitty, blogs at The Lovely Simulacrum. She makes her living as a corporate stooge and likes to consider herself a generally unf*ckwitted human being, but... we all have bad days, right? She's been through childhood abuse, cult churches, a suicidal mother and alcoholic father, a near-fatal car accident that landed her in a coma for a month, etc, etc. She's traveled all over the world and lives with her husband, autistic brother, dog, and overweight feline in the belly button of the Midwest.

Pamela is a twenty-something stay at home mom to a four-year old {Half-Blood} little girl and wife to an uber-nerd for five and a half years. She has struggled with Trichotillomania since her teen years and  severe PPD, after she had her daughter. She lives in Texas, but dreams of living in London during the early 1800s. She is currently working on really and truly loving herself.

Her idea of a good time is reading a good Historical Romance book with a nice, big slice of red velvet cake. You can find Pamela on Twitter, Tumblr, or on her blog where she writes about parenting, her struggles with Trichotillomania, and everything in between.

Shevaun is the mom of two fabulous kids (eight- and six-year old girls), wife to a husband, and fur-mom to a 3lb chihuahua and a 12lb cat. She's tattooed and pierced and her only real addiction is reading. If she doesn't read, she gets stabby. Seriously, she reads like other people breathe. She's a full-time student, which also makes her TIRED. You can find her on Twitter when she doesn’t have her nose stuck in a book.

She is the face of depression, child abuse, low self-esteem, migraines, the survivor of a violent attack and rape.

Also? She has really big tonsils. True story. Ask her dentist.

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silverlily is a lover of geeky things: science, technology, good fantasy novels etc. She works for a small local company supervising the tech support group. She's been making friends via the internet for over fifteen years and you can currently find her on Twitter and Tumblr. She shares a small home in Northern California with her husband/best friend and their loyal German Shepherd. Her primary nemesis is depression, which she has been battling since age ten. She and her husband have also been grappling with her PCOS-related infertility for over two years in an attempt to have a baby.

She is currently part of the The Band's social media team, primarily working on the Tumblr site.

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Stacey is a reader, shopper, and killer – killer of her iPhone battery, that is. She has a son, a step-daughter, and two birds named Bob and Kiwi. When she’s not busy helping with resource pages and social media, she’s teaching her birds to say “634 blow jobs in five days… I’m really quite tired” (her favorite movie quote), baking killer chocolate cakes, and reliving her Romper Room appearance from when she was five years old.

She’s sarcastic, irreverent, loyal, a former show dog trainer, and controller of documents. If you want on her good side, make her some seafood. If you want on her bad side… well, you don’t want to know.  In addition to her duties with The Band, she can be found on her own blog at Sometimes Meaningful Ramblings.

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Tara, also known here as IWantThursdays, is a mommy to one humanperson and two cats that think they are human. She works in the insurance industry, which she admits no one should be proud to say out loud. Her deepest desire is to be a full-time writer but is afraid she will suck at it. Tara resides in Tennessee where she drinks too much green tea, eats too many sweets and tries to maintain balance in her life. She is on a journey of minimalism, trying to rid her life of the junk she has accumulated, both physically and mentally. When not playing with The Band she can be found voraciously reading real paper books or making something with two pointy sticks and yarn.

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Her name is Teala, but just call her Mary Mary because she is quite contrary. Tell her not to do something,and chances are she'll do it. She is noisy yet quiet, chaotic yet organized.

As an optimist and perfectionist with pessimistic and procrastinating tendencies, she somehow got stuck within her very own "Fortress of Solitude" (read: comfort zone). But that has changed since coming into possession of some high quality WMDs, which she uses to nuke her comfy cube and blast herself into a new world. Teala chronicles her journey, ranging from her new adventures and struggles to her obsession with books and music and everything in between, at Earth to Teala and on Twitter.

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Tracie works on resource pages and social media with The Band. She also writes about life on her blog, From Tracie. She is a wife to Thomas (they have had three weddings, and are currently restraining themselves from planning a fourth), a dorky-mom to Katarina, and a follower of Jesus. Tracie is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, She is an advocate for child abuse and sexual assault victims and survivors, and manages the monthly Blog Against Child Abuse. She believes in the importance of support, the power of speaking out, and the possibility of healing and joy.

A mad crafter, Tracie dreams of one day owning a lathe. She loves everything about books (the words, the smell, the sound and feel of the pages) and has been known to pet and sniff them when not reading. Tracie often breaks out in song (and sometimes dance) and secretly wishes that her life could be a musical. She takes pictures of things that are yellow.

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Triplezmom, also known as Jen,  thought it would be easier to stay home with three kids than to teach 25 all day.

Now she really misses having a lunch break.