Krista Martin:  

Life I must be the biggest geek for filling out everything on this website! Let's see... I'm living in southwestern PA, married (3/03) to a labor historian. Lou & I have no kids and don't make much money, but (as John Prine sez) ain't we got love! I opened my own law office in 2003, but I lost the taste for law. Right now, I'm working as a land agent for the USA's 3rd largest developer of natural gas. It's the best job I've ever had, and being in SW PA right now is really exciting, since it's like a gold rush. My husband just got a teaching potition at a college in Pittsburgh. Thank goodness we are staying in the area. I mean, I like to travel and all that, but it's good to have a home, and who cares if I have to drive 40min almost to get to the grocery store? I just want more land for more chickens, more space in the garden, some solar panels, more clean soil to dirty my pretty feet in. I am raising pet chickens in our backyard to augment our garden. I'm actually crazy about those pet chickens - maybe this is what happens when you can't have kids. I show the occasional chicken competitively, (yes, just like dogs, people show chickens!!), and at the Spring Show in Uniontown, my Buff Orpington Cock won Best of Class (English Fowl). Of course, he was the only English breed of fowl in that particular show. He was a shoe-in. I'm still into art, writing and music: playing guitar, mandolin, fiddle and bass guitar. I don't write as much as I used to, but I keep an idea list going. I used to be super busy and super ambitious. I stopped getting up at 5am when my brain chemistry went the other way. Turns out I'm bipolar - Bipolar II, to be precise. Sounds like some sequel that's not worth your $6.50, and at which your date will not hold your hand. Maybe it's the kind of sequel you have to sit through by yourself, at a matinee, to make it worth your while. Digging a little into my family history, I was not surprised...Expand for more