Loretta Y. Gillespie is a freelance writer and columnist whose work appears each week in The Moulton Advertiser, and the The Cullman Tribune. Her work has appeared regularly in The Madison County Record, and frequently in the Athens News-Courier. She has been a contributing writer for Alabama Gardener Magazine for the past nine years, as well as for several city-magazines such as Huntsville Event, Hartselle Area Magazine, The Cullman Times Magazine, Southern Family Magazine, Life on the Water, Cullman Life and Valley Babies. She is the author of “I Love Me Some Rednecks” a tribute to all disaster volunteers, which has traveled around the world via the internet. It was the inspiration for a song written by Mike Owens, called ‘A Redneck Point of View’. She lives in Moulton, Alabama with her husband, Danny. You can find her on Facebook, and at gillespiegardens.blogspot.com.