Lots of great story ideas and a line-up of themes for each issue of Her Times magazine in 2008.

Her Times magazine is produced, primarily by three ETN staffers -- myself, my boss, Marnie Mead Oberle and our designer, Holly Waychoff. But, we have a bevy of local freelancers who write for the magazine and lend their creative talent and ideas to the publication.

Once a year, we host a big meeting and invite all the freelancers to sit around in a room and help us pick themes for the magazine for the following year. It's always a wonderful experience to get so many creative, dynamic people in one room.

Here are a few photos from our meeting earlier this week:

From left to right: Dianna Noe, Pam Parker and Chris Pennsy.

Monica Lewis, Amanda Burlingham, Fiona Branton (our new fitness writer), Amy West and Josh West.

Valerie Weaver, Gennifer Biggs, Marnie Mead Oberle, Monica Lewis (who we are pretty sure is NOT asleep here), Amanda Burlingham.

The themes we chose are deliberately vague and open ended so that they can be interpreted in many ways and applied to a cross-section of stories covering everything from hair and makeup to relationships to home interiors.

The themes we chose for 2008 are (drum roll please):

"Baggage"
"Retro -- Everything Old is New Again"
"Women in the Driver's Seat"
"What's Fair?"
"Taking a Stand"
"Party Time"