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.

Please note: as of 4/11/09, all my gardening hubs are kept on a separate hubography. Please visit: KerryG's Gardening Hubs.

As of 8/3/09, all my women's health hubs are also listed on a separate hubography. Please visit: kerryg's Women's Health Hubs.

In May/June of 2009, I participated in the HubChallenge and the 41 hubs I completed for that challenge are listed at KerryG's HubChallenge Hubs.

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.

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.

Because of my interest in sustainable agriculture, I like to show my support for it as much as possible, both by eating organic and grassfed products as much as possible and by writing about them! I am also interested in health and nutrition in general, and enjoy both cooking and eating.

I'm a bit of a politics junkie (okay, more than a bit) and an unapologetic bleeding heart, tree hugging liberal. As you might have guessed from my long list of conservation related hubs, the environment is my main issue, but women's issues, foreign policy, and many others are also important to me.

Regardless of my personal biases, however, I do value good research (partly because I love to do it!) and make an effort to present solid, uncontestable facts, with sources, as often as possible in my political hubs. I request similar effort and consideration from those with differing opinions.

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.

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.

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.

I am participating in the HubMob challenge on the HubPages forums. Every week, a different topic is assigned and participants have to create a hub on some aspect of the topic. It's fun and educational, so come join us!

A selection of requests I've made during my months at HubPages, with links to the best hubs answering them.

Thanks for your answers, guys!

I am also active on Squidoo, where I have been a lensmistress since October 2006.

Thinking about joining Squidoo?

My fellow Lensmaster-Hubbers darkside and relache both have excellent hubs comparing the two services: