Kerryg on HubPages
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Hi there, and welcome to my "hubography!" My name is KerryG and I've been a member of HubPages since January 2008. I've really enjoyed the community here so far, as well as the opportunity to write about some of my favorite subjects.
And I do have a lot of favorite subjects! I was lucky enough to be homeschooled throughout my middle and high school years, which gave me a lot of free time to explore all sorts of things in depth. I aspire to be a "Glorious Generalist," but am, in the end, also perfectly satisfied with knowing a little bit about a lot of things, and a lot about some things. The "some things" tend to center around literature, history, politics, nature, health, and saving the world. :)
I am currently a stay-at-home mother and wife, part-time research assistant, and internet content writer. I enjoy reading, writing, playing with my daughter, gardening, hiking, and procrastination.
Here the Earth Was the Floor of the Sky
I became interested in tallgrass prairie restoration when I was 12 or 13 and when I was 14, I started my first tallgrass restoration project (pictured to the right) on my family's acreage near Omaha.
Since then, I've become interested in many other aspects of prairie conservation and restoration. I am a firm believer in the power of sustainable agriculture to restore health to both ourselves and our environment, and on the Plains, I support efforts to bring back bison on a large scale as meat animals and for tourism, to harvest the wind with small wind systems, and to restore and conserve wildlife habitat.
My Prairie Hubs
PrairieWeb
PrairieWeb is a del.icio.us account I opened recently as part of a mad attempt to bookmark and tag every useful prairie-related resource on the internet.
What? I like to be organized.
The most recent bookmarks are:
- Welcome to Prairiesource.com
an informational resource for all things regarding prairie, native grasses, wildflowers and related topics.
- NatureServe Homepage: A Network Connecting Science with Conservation
NatureServe is a non-profit conservation organization whose mission is to provide the scientific basis for effective conservation action. NatureServe and its network of natural heritage programs are the leading source for information about rare and endang
- TPWD: Texas Wildscapes
Texas Wildscapes is a habitat restoration and conservation plan for rural and urban areas. It enables Texans to contribute to wildlife conservation by developing wildlife habitats where they live, work and play.
Natural Gardening Isn't Just For Hippies Anymore
Part and parcel of my interest in prairie restoration and sustainable agriculture, I've also developed a strong interest in natural gardening. My hubs focus on natural gardening in the Northern Plains and prairie regions of North America, because this is what I am most familiar with, but I do my best to incorporate a range of information and resources suitable from either a philosophical or practical standpoint for other climates and continents as well.
I Hear Saving the World Doesn't Pay So Well These Days
I'm one of a rare breed: a Nebraska liberal, and a full-on tree hugging bleeding heart, no less. I tend to take a fairly holistic view of saving the world, so two of my primary interests are organic agriculture and sustainable development, which often go hand-in-hand and which promise to improve the health of both our environment and ourselves. Other interests include women's rights, climate change, and, as you might guess from the prairie thing, habitat conservation/restoration and biodiversity issues, both among wild and domesticated plant and animal species. I tend to see these issues as more interconnected than not also.
On the Joys of Womanhood
I suffered from severe menstrual cramps for many years, in the course of which I became pretty disillusioned with the medical system and interested in the effects of dietary choices on health in general and cramps in particular.
Musings of a Twarted History-English Double Major
Okay, so "thwarted" is too strong a word. It was more that I got sidetracked by Russian. But I maintain a strong interest in both history and literature (English and otherwise), and love writing about them.
I especially like classical Greek tragedy and epic poetry, 19th century British, Russian, and French novels, 20th century drama, and the poetry of Robert Frost and Anna Akhmatova. (Yes, I'm picky - so many books, so little time.) Historically, I am especially fond of medieval European history and the US-Indian Wars of the 19th century.
Pop Pleasures, Guilty Pleasures, and Other Entertainment That's Better than It Sounds, I Swear
Just because a lot of my favorite books are things like Middlemarch and Pride and Prejudice and The Iliad doesn't mean I'm not perfectly capable of enjoying books and other entertainment of a far less exalted nature. Not necessarily bad, mind you. Just not Shakespeare.
Peripateticisms
I love travel and am lucky enough to have parents and a husband who do too. I've visited more than 40 states, lived in four states and one foreign country (Russia), and travelled not nearly extensively enough in Western Europe.
Miscellanea
Requests I've Made:
A rotating selection of hubs made by others in response to requests I've made. Thanks for your answer, guys!
Elsewheres
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Comments
I like how you did this one! :-)
Dear kerryg
Thanks for the nice comments on my hub about raising happy children; I appreciate it. I really like your writing style and the way you did this hub. Nice work! I'm gonna be a fan!
This is a great hubography!
This is an excellent reference to you and your work. I am particularly enjoying your bison articles, which have led me to more and more excellent information through the links you provide. Great stuff!
Wonderful, Kerry! I am so excited to go through and read more of your hubs and lenses! Thanks for putting this together!
This looks great - very well done!
Thanks to everyone for the lovely comments!
Sally's Trove, I'm especially pleased to hear that you've found the links useful. I've read advice on the boards that says you shouldn't provide too many outside links, so people are more likely to click on the ads, but I want to write hubs that *I* would find useful if I were looking for the information, and I like sites that provide supporting information and related links - the more the better, in fact. So it's really nice to hear that you've found them useful and informative. :-)
Kerryg, I believe you are taking the right approach about links in your hubs, because readers do want more information at their fingertips when a subject interests them. You definitely put yourself in my shoes when you chose to go this route. Because of your approach, I'm likely to search out your hubs, rate them up, and comment on them more often, thereby upping your hubscore, which will in turn drive more hubbers to your hubs, and then *they* can click on ads. :)
Thanks, I hope you're right! And either way, I guess, at least I'll have some articles that I can feel proud of, which is the most important thing, in the end. If you're going to do something, do it well, is a principle I try to live by.
Thank you KerryG for putting yourself right out there in your "Hubography". It has so many good links I want to explore that I'm bookmarking it for later--you are clearly a woman of many parts:-) I am more into procrastination than saving the world--but I like the idea--that is if salvation is possible.
I spent a lot of time with my mother's family in central and eastern Kansas as a child and love the look feel and smell of the great plains--am glad to know the native plants and animals are coming back where they belong. I have a special fondness for that part of the world.
So glad to make your acquaintance Kerryg--and look forward to more of your hubs.
Its really interesting how the hubograph comes up quite differently from a lensography - I have a way to go before I have enough to do a lensography!
Glorious generalist! I love it. And Anna ... what a great nose. Wow!
Truly wonderful composition of your amazingly creative and great work!












In The Doghouse says:
4 months ago
Very nice job.