Jeff Ballentine is 47 years old, married to his wife of 11 years, Luanne, and together they reside in Ooltewah with their two beautiful daughters, Emily, 8, and Mattie, 4. In Jeff's professional life, the first 10 years were spent as a golf professional and in latter years, sales and marketing positions in healthcare, information technology and insurance have occupied his time. Growing up in a family of avid readers, he learned the joy of the written word quickly and has been a willing hostage all these years. He is currently writing a novel with the working title, Speed of Loneliness. He also dabbles in creative non-fiction, telling the tales of his childhood in the 1960's in a small farming community that hadn't heard Bob Dylan's message that "the time's they are a changin'".

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