was born in iowa and have spent a majority of my life there. have two brothers and two sisters and two parents. went to school and all that bs through high school. then decided to continue my education and study political science. got three years down the road and decided to quit. only had another year left and another major but i just could not sacrifice anymore of my life. seemed to be the cumulative effects of years of anger, frustration, and alienation towards 'our' society. got into punk rock music in junior high school time and that opened the doors to radical politics and alternative lifestyles. my politics evolved through the next couple of years until i became a self described anarchist. that label is one that i have held for many years and has become very important to me but i am not dogmatic about any of my beliefs. have developed my ideas and ethics based on my own desires and experiences. these inclinations coupled with feelings of humyns treatment (read: exploitation) of the non humyn world became too much. i quit school and became job and home free. riding trains, hitchhiking, eating out of dumpsters, exploring the US, and just floating with the wind. eventually the lifestyle i adapted was missing the content that i desired. my urge was/is to create a viable alternative to the destructive megamachine. so i started to work low level jobs for corporations that i wished to dismantle. went into debt to get some land in southern missouri and spent parts of two summers down there trying to homestead. the time down there just furthered my interested in homesteading. on an individual level it is a very difficult process, especially if ya have little money. the rest of the year when not in missouri i spent working and traveling. so this lead me to looking for others with interest in natural building, permaculture, and rural homesteading. found the Red Earth link off of the Dancing Rabbit web page. visited and fell in love with the rolling hills and the wildflowers and tall grasses. worked and traveled until this spring at which point i came down here to live. have been digging garden beds, thinking about a forest garden and strawbale cabin, watching my chickens, riding my bike, exploring conservation areas, reading, playing ultimate, building temporary structures, studying wildflowers, finding wild edibles, and watching trains zip by on the old Santa Fe line. i guess those things and writing a biography for y'all.