About the author

Stacie Greene Hidek is the online editor at StarNews Media in Wilmington, N.C., where she’s been since 2001. She attended UCLA for her sociology degree and the University of North Carolina School of Journalism for graduate study.

She enjoys

• Travel: Just discovered the greatness of cruises.
• Reading: From Wired magazine and the Sunday New York Times, to young adult novels and some books about zombies and vampires.
• Finley: You should meet her — she’s great.

And she loves to eat at great restaurants (which, living in the Cape Fear, she never runs out of).