After a sabatical, happy ICLW!

I've been missing from this little get-together (and missing it as well!) for the past few months, I have to apologize, but it's been just a little crazy busy.  I have to add another apology, because right at this moment I don't have time to pound out the posts that have been coalescing in my brain.  So this intro is going to be a bit brief, but I promise that I'll get to them soon.  Until then, please feel free to poke around and look and some of my older posts, or wait and come back in a couple days when I have a proper post, more in line with my style and personality.

For those of you that don't know me, I have been a surrogate and egg donor (thus my original interest in some of your blogs- mostly via the amazing Jaymee and the fantastic Sabrina).  More important to my day-to-day functioning and self definition, I'm a doctoral candidate in Ecology currently crushing my prospectus on invasive plants and their effects on native frogs into being; I'm the mother of a four year old boy that really has no equal- no bias there, just the fact of the matter :-); I'm the wife to a biologist converted to history that is currently working on finishing his master's thesis on gender, revolution, Che Guevara and Robert Williams.  I also own and run a small cloth diaper business, Baby by Nature at www.babybynature.org and am active in my community, Kent, Ohio and loving what I do.  It's a rough life, but someone has to be me.  Ciao!

ICLW!

Since I finally finished stuff I had to do for my students, I have a little time to say a quick welcome to those of you visiting from ICLW! I love this time of month, even if it does fall when I'm already busy. Not much to update here. You can see things that I've already said over in the archives. I'm a mama, doctoral candidate, wife, daughter, sister, friend, writer, teacher, researcher, herpetologist, ecologist, activist, feminist, gardener, hiker, biker, tattooed, cooking, picture-taking, music loving, pacifist, communist, pagan that is involved with the Jewish and UU community. And when I have time, surrogate and egg donor. Yeah, so, a simple life I lead, right? That's all I'm going to say for now, because really, the better way to get to know a person is through their own eyes, I think. So here are a few photos.

July IComLeavWe Introduction: ABC's

I saw this done by a few people last month, and thought I'd give it a try as my intro this month. If you want to find out more about me, read my previous posts or email me. I'm excited to be doing my second IComLeavWe- it was fabulous last month! Such supportive and caring people, and so many great thoughts and stories. So, come, play, share and learn. That's what I'll be doing!

A- Ambitious.
B- Busy.
C- Communist leaning.
D- Damnable.
E- Environmentalist-ish.
F- Feminist-ish.
G- Global-thinking.
H- Helpful.
I- Imaginative.
J- Jovial- not at all.
K- Ken-mama
L- Linguistically challenged.
M- Married, and growing more happily.
N- Nutty.
O- Organic.
P- Pacifist.
Q- Quiet.
R- Restless.
S- Social activist.
T- Teacher. Or try to be.
U- Unsociable.
V- Variable.
W- Willful.
X- Xenophyte fighter.
Y- Yeast lover.
Z- Zoologist. Herpetologist, more accurately.

Happy IComLeavWe!