Who are the eyes that are turned toward soaps and other things?  We here at Eye On Soaps are blessed with a dedicated and talented staff of contributors who are instrumental in the success of the site.  It is the hard work of these people that distinguishes EOS from the rest.  Click on the staff member's name to read their full profile.

BELINDA ACHE:  "Daytime Diva:  View From the Recliner's Edge" columnist for AMC, GH & OLTL

Belinda Clark-Ache lives near the boot heel of Missouri, an area that she and her husband of 30 years have called home despite living (among other places with the military) in Europe and California. In the same way hauntingly beautiful rural Missouri calls her home to it, so the ABC daytime dramas call her home to them. Watching General Hospital with her mother and family from the early days in 1966 and throughout her life, it is no surprise that she turned to commentary writing, landing here with her Eye On Soaps family in July of 2007. Belinda is mother to three grown sons, a daughter from another mother (also grown), and (as of November 26, 2007) 11 grandchildren with such soap savvy names as 8 year old Patrick Drake, Autumn-7, Mason-6, Tristan-5, Elijah-3, Skye-3, Myranda-2, Zander-2, Korbin-1 and the newest arrival; Jenna. In her "real life" she indulges her other life long passion, studying the paranormal with the investigative team she co-founded in 2005 Haunted Missouri Paranormal Studies.

CAROLYN ASPENSON:  "Carolyn and Kathy Do the Spoilers" columnist for GH & OLTL.

Carolyn lives in a suburb (I won't tell you which one, but it has a kind of dirty name) of Atlanta, GA with her husband and three children.  She  spends her time ferrying her kids around, trying to figure out what she wants to do with her life and exercising.  She enjoys writing when her creative muse allows.  In her rare spare time, Carolyn listens to music and reads and then reads and listens to music.  She is gorgeous and blonde and smart and fun and thinks she has fat arms and a fat ass (she doesn't). 

AMBER BARTON:  "Capricorn Lounge" columnist for OLTL.

Amber lives in NC where she spends entirely too much time sifting through yard sales, thrift, and junk shops in search of the elusive find.  She is happily married with two kids and a neurotic black lab.  When she’s not baking, she’s probably asleep.  In her spare time she fantasizes about risqué things like writing without interruption or clothes shopping without the kiddos. 

Yes, that's really a photo of her and not the chick from "Gray's Anatomy."  She just looks like her.
 

MAXINE BENNETT:  "Each Day a New Beginning" off topic columnist.

Maxine gets to cuddle Steve Burton and Maurice Benard a whole lot more than any of us do and for that reason alone, we all want to get as close to her as we can so that we can maybe catch a little drop of their sweat or something here and there.  You'll see Maxine working hard at these guys' events, plus many others.  Maxine is a mom and a grandmom and we all love her because she is just that precious.  She gives the best hugs in the whole wide world and I am honored that she is my friend and the only thing that we can find that is wrong with her is that we just can't seem to spend enough TIME with her!

KATE BROWN:   "AMC Spoilers With Commentary" for AMC

Kate Roach Brown is a life-long fan of ABC soaps and has been with Eye on Soaps since its birth in 2000.  She is married to a fabulous businessman who carries her around on a little pillow and treats her like the treasure that she is.  She is a professional editor and journalist and is just exactly as you'd think she is when you read her writing.  She has a rich and sultry past that is peppered with rock stars and roadies and wholly enviable celebrity encounters.  You want to be her, we know, but *sigh* you can't, so just keep encouraging her to write that book so we can all live vicariously through her.

CINDY DEVINE:  "CC's Soap Saloon" columnist for AMC, GH and OLTL.

Yes, that's her real name (but sssssh!  That's not her real picture!).  CC lives in the back room of a bar and spends her time drinking cocktails if she's feeling prissy and chugging beer if she's feeling bawdy and sipping wine if she's feeling classy.  Since she discovered soap operas at the tender age of 2 months, the TVs at the bar have gotten progressively larger and more expensive.  As it turns out, we couldn't get her to leave the bar, so we just renamed the sumbitch to "CC's Soap Saloon," then rolled in a computer and forced her to write her columns from there.  We *thought* she must be married, just because we can't even imagine any guy being able to resist a woman who lives in a bar, but as it turns out, one man can't hold her down (unless she asks him too and then it's only temporary), so she's a swanging sangle.  When she's a little more in the cups than usual (and we're talking D cups here), her protective nature takes hold and she lets the readers know exactly what she thinks about the damage being done to our soaps (those are the beer days).  We try not to reel her in too much because we think sassy is just damned cute and we don't want to do anything to break her devilish spirit.

THE GOURMEZ:  "The Gourmez" columnist for GH.

The Gourmez enjoys fine wine, fine food and fine soaps, but she still watches ABC soaps anyway.  (haha)  Jusst kidding.  She has a fabulous website where you can read more of her work, but her real talent comes through in the insightful analysis of GH in her column on EOS.  With her knowledge of food, cocktails and soap operas, we figure that makes her just about the most perfect friend anyone could have, so we are all wrestling for the rights to move in with her and force her to haul us around with her to all of these restaurants to try out the goods with her.  We aren't figuring her husband will mind much since he'd get to squire around all of these good looking women, not that HIS vote is more of a gratuity anyways.

KATHY HARDEMAN:  "Carolyn and Kathy Do the Spoilers" for GH & OLTL. 

Kathy lives in a small town about 25 miles outside of Houston, Texas with her husband, 2 children, 4 grandchildren, a Great Dane, a cat and two fish.  She considers herself a stay at home mom and a writer who happens to have a part time job driving a school bus.  In a perfect world, she would live on a mountain, write, hike, ride horses, read, ride motorcycles, garden, listen to music, study Tae Kwon Do and only come down when cravings for junk food demanded satisfaction.  You may see her rollerblading across Texas with Alex, the Great Dane panting and struggling to keep up with her.  You know that thing that everyone does now where you use your peace sign fingers to point at your eyes, then at your victim, then back at your eyes again, then back at them again to say, "I've got my eyes on you, buster?"  She invented that.  I swear.  It's true.  Oh and don't call her "Mimi." 

KAREN H:  "Confessions of a Media Ho" columnist for GH and AMC.

"The Media Ho," more commonly known as Karen H., has lived on Long Island or in New York City her entire life, yet has no discernable accent. (She wishes she did, because accents really do it for her.) A GH fan since 1983 (FRISCO!) and an AMC fan since 1988, Karen enjoys writing for EOS and being involved, however peripherally, with the soap community. She lives both in NYC and on Long Island with her three adorable cats and one of the largest private collections of media known to man (DVDs, CDs, books, etc.). Still looking for Mr. Right, especially when traveling to France, which she doesn't do often enough. Other interests include pop culture history, high-tech gadgets, fine cuisine, country cooking (which often trumps fine cuisine), tennis, enlarging her chosen "family" as opposed to her "biological" family, enjoying excellent red wine, Yankee baseball, reading, listening to/playing music, and much, much more! 

STARR RAVEN MADDE:  "A Murder of Prose" columnist for GH.

Starr is a student, not just academically, but of life.  Her quick wit and saucy style keep us all in stitches with her wonderful captioned snappies.  She is a fan of anime and manga, as well as romance novels.  She is obsessed with music and reads voraciously. She also loves movies, TV and chatting online with friends and family.  She has watched General Hospital for most of her life and is currently crushing on Dillon, Spinelli and Jason.  She has deemed Jerry/Mr Craig as "scary" and thinks Rick Springfield is so Awesome that his Awesome is personified and is dated by Rick Springfield.  Starr is a prolific writer and enjoys creating screenplays, fan fiction and novels in abundance.

SHERRY MERCURIO:  "Sherry's Jubilee" (off topic)

Somewhere around the beginning of 2002, Katrina told Sherry that if she were going to continue writing lengthy emails containing opinions galore regarding General Hospital, she might as well attempt to make it in a printable format.  Sherry had no idea whatsoever that she had any interest at all in writing any sort of column, until Katrina told her so, and for that she is eternally grateful.  She's also grateful for all the readers and friends she's met through Eye on Soaps.  Sherry lives in Michigan with her very cute husband and two adorable daughters, who are about 8 and 7 last time we checked.  In her dreams she writes prolifically and she does in ours as well.  She is pretty sure none of us read her wonderful writing, not quite understanding that we all sit and grovel for her next offering.  Historically, her nonsoap writings get more hits than most of our soap writings.  She's just that good.  Plus, she has (and will admit this fact if questioned about it) really, really great feet.

MYSTI:  "Mysti's Musings" columnist for GH. 

Mysti lives in West Texas with her husband, 2 sons entering the teenaged years and one spoiled cocker spaniel.  She works for at a local university, and when not working, going to her kids' games, doing family stuff or working on the house they're about to move into, she watches too much TV while reading anything she can get her hands on, playing ghost hunter or going to watch her beloved Center Ice play hockey.  From that information, we have deduced that she likes hot violent men who enjoy ultimately being left out in the cold.  She, as you can tell from the photo, is just as cute as a little bug's rear and has perfect teeth.  We have been informed that we are NOT seeing a giant Cheechy joint between those perfect teeth and that it is, in fact, an odd angle on a birthday card with a naked guy on it.  *shrug*  Who knew?

KATRINA RASBOLD:  Site owner & webmaster,  graphic artist, "Katrina:  Queen of It All," (an off topic journal), and "As Easy As ABC" columnist for AMC, GH & OLTL.