We all have an interest in the everyday details of various little corners of the world, and there are so many little niches and nooks that even people who have lived somewhere forever often don't know all there is to know about that place. Surely many New Yorkers don't know what’s it like to attend a PTA meeting in SoHo... what's it like to run a button store in NYC's Garment District... or what's it like to be an Ethiopian immigrant and run a hot dog stand in Central Park.

On a more exotic note, what’s it like to run a hot dog stand in Reykjavik, Iceland?(Yes they have them!) What’s it like to live on a U.S. army base in Saudi Arabia? GlobalHometown wants Netsurfers to describe everyday life in a corner of the world to each other.

T.K. Maloy (shown above with his traveling buddies) is an experienced journalist, publisher, university faculty member, and book author.

Maloy recently left the senior editorial staff of United Press International (June ‘07) where he served as the Business and Economics Editor, acting as an assignment editor and coordinator for the company's U.S. and global business staff, columnists, and freelance stringers. He also served as a senior business writer, covering major corporate action, U.S financial markets, Capitol Hill, the federal agencies, and specialized in coverage of the high-tech and biotechnology industry business sectors.

He was previously the editor-owner of The Internet Newsroom, a newsletter for information professionals who use the Internet for research. This publication was sold in November 2000 to Bergman Publications, Richmond, Va.

Mr. Maloy is also a longtime member of the adjunct journalism faculty at the American University School of Communication in Washington, D.C., where he teaches Internet-communications-related subjects and also teaches basic news writing and Washington reporting. He has authored two books about the Internet: "The Writer's Internet Handbook," and "The Internet Research Guide." He is currently working on a book under the working title of "Digital Unlimited" a study of business and personal communications in the 21st century online world. Maloy has also conducted abroad teaching as a visiting lecturer for the USIA in Sri Lanka and Gaza/West Bank.

Born July 13, 1960 in Washington, D.C., he graduated from George Washington University and worked briefly in the field of international affairs before entering journalism, the third generation of his family to do so. He learned his journalism trade the traditional way, by working as a small-town and regional reporter where he covered courts, cops, city hall, and local personalities. This was followed by stints as a Washington correspondent and as a financial writer covering Wall Street in New York City.

He is the creator of the National Press Club CyberCocktail Lecture Series, a regular panel forum touching upon technology topics.

Mr. Maloy resides in the Washington area where he owns a house in Glen Echo, Maryland.

He is available at: tkmaloy@globalhometown.com.

Dar Haddix, writer, editor, and artist, came to Washington several years ago looking to escape the harsh winters and extortionist tax rates of Chicago.

She cut her journalistic teeth by first working at a local Virginia weekly, and eventually rose to Deputy Business Editor at the venerable wire service United Press International, where she has covered a variety of topics from Russia’s emerging economy to the effects of Sarbanes Oxley.

She has also published fiction and poetry, co-edited a literary magazine, Hair Trigger, covered the generic drugs industry for a trade newsletter, and helped research the Center for Public Integrity’s latest presidential campaign finance expose, The Buying of the President 2004.

Born in 1969, she got her bachelor’s in fiction writing from Columbia College of Chicago, and her master’s degree in public policy and print journalism at American University. Ms. Haddix, who lives in the Washington, D.C. area, is finishing her first novel.

She is available at: dhaddix@globalhometown.

Paul Gachot is a visual writer and magazine editor with interests in travel, film, photography, design, zoology, and the mysteries of human consciousness. He lives in Los Angeles where, among other things, he keeps a daily blog called Gazpachot (http://gazpachot.blogspot.com). His hometown of Old Westbury, NY, is a relatively quiet little postage stamp of green in an otherwise very gray zone of Google Maps. It consists of a few empty fields, plenty of god-awful McMansions, and wonderful highway access.