Kerryg on HubPages
78Hi 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.
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.
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.
Food and Recipes
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.
- Which is more healthy for consumption by humans, animals or plants?
- Easy Baked Salmon That Melts in Your Mouth
- HubPages Cookbook: Salmon Recipes
- The Lazy Cook's Guide to Eggplant Caviar
- HubPages Cookbook: Eggplant Recipes
- The Lazy Cook's Guide to Borscht
- Tajik Mung Bean Soup
- A Salad a Day Keeps the Doctor Away: The Health Benefits of Green Salads
- Health Supplements for Vegetarians: Do You Need Supplements?
- Understanding Labels on Meat, Eggs, and Dairy Products
- Why Grassfed is Best
- The Benefits of Pastured Pork
- The Benefits of Bison
- Boycott Feedlot "Organics"
- Seven Ways to Change the World by Eating
- The Sun Food Revolution
- Health Secrets of the Plains Indians
Politics and Other Addictions
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.
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.
- Making Desktop Wallpapers in Photoshop
- The Female Gaze
- The Basics of Fanfiction
- The Basics of Fanvids
- Is Battlestar Galactica the Most Feminist Show on TV?
- Merlin on NBC
- Raising Smart Kids Without Throwing Out the TV
- Gordon Korman
- Ten Reasons To Drool Over Jensen Ackles
- Ten Reasons To Drool Over Jared Padalecki
- The Hottest Dancers in Hollywood
- Guyliner Pictures
- Great Drummers in Action
- Shameless Sexual Objectification of Politicians
- What Is Geofiction?
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
- The Future of Suburbia
- Wind Energy Basics for Farmers
- Why America Needs High Speed Rail
- Bee, Wasp, or Yellow Jacket?
- Livestock Guardian Animals
- Horseshoe Crabs
- Getting Started With Afterschooling
- Medieval Decor for Modern Homes
- Straw Bale Construction Resources
- Permeable Pavements for Your Driveway
- Living Machines
- AGA Cookers
- The Truth About Himalayan Salt Crystal Lamps
- Lego Star Wars Minifigs
- Wikis for Worldbuilding
- A Few of Her Favorite Things: 14 Months
- Raising Lamb for the Muslim Market
- The High Fructose Corn Syrup Controversy
- Ethical Affiliate Marketing
- Infanticide
- So You Want to Immigrate to the United States
- How to Enter the Diversity Visa Lottery
- Why do guys think that all girls have a bit of lesbian in them?
My HubMob Hubs
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 Simple Victorian Hairstyle
- Exercise for People Who Hate Exercise
- Eat Better and Live Longer With Traditional Food Cultures
- How To Care for a Pet Praying Mantis
- Each Uisge: The Scottish Water Horse
- Adopt a Black Dog
- Adding Winter Interest to Your Garden
- Viburnums for Year Round Beauty
- A Christmas Tree for the Birds
- Bulk Lego Bricks
- Money Saving Garden Tips
- Landscaping for Energy Efficiency
- Choosing an Organic Shampoo
- The Bridges of St. Petersburg
- Five Reasons To Watch Supernatural
- Twilight: Love to Hate or Hate to Love?
- Wind Energy Jobs and How To Get Them
- Ideas for a Medieval Themed Wedding
- Spring Flowers of the North American Prairie
Requests I've Made:
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!
- What are the best post-apocalyptic books, movies, or tv shows?
- Easy, healthy snack ideas for young toddlers
- Dealing efficiently with junk mail and other paperwork around the house
- Best 5 Bollywood Movies for People Who've Never Seen a Bollywood Movie
- Which is better, Star Trek or Star Wars?
- Did Goldman Sachs engineer the current depression?
- How to choose energy efficient windows
- Best Places To Live In Canada
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:
2 years ago
Very nice job.