Mike Thorne
Hi, I'm the founder of the Ivy family. I was born in Toronto, Canada, however I'm currently residing in Australia. I'm a Jazz musicican, and I build useless webpages in my spare time. I keep meaning to write something else in here, but the truth is I can't think of anything.

Margie Sprehe
i was born and raised here in chicago. and what a joyous time it's been, but i won't get into that. i'm 17 and i graduate next year. then it's off to college to become a veterinarian. 8 more years of school, here i come!!! woo!!!

Mark Simons
My name is Mark Simons. I live in Frostburg, Maryland. Frostburg is a very small college town in Allegany County, Maryland; about as far west as one can go before crossing into West Virginia. I am a photographer for the Cumberland Times-News, the regional daily newspaper serving Allegany and Garrett counties in Maryland, and Mineral and Hampshire counties in West Virginia. I am also a graduate student at Frostburg State University, a college founded by a socialist union of Appalachian coal miners at the turn of the century. Have I ever founded a college? No. Have I ever had my head busted open by anti-union thugs? No. I guess I am just a poor shadow of those that have gone before.

Jennifer Nall
My name is Jennifer, I am 17 and live in Lakeland, FL. I will be a senior at a local high school in the fall and plan to attend FSU. Big whoop. Currently I am enjoying evading my parents and their rules. In my spare time I find trivial entertainment in my city with comrades.

Mike Furniere
I am a senior music composition major at Towson U in Maryland. Besides writing atonal music and playing free jazz piano, I enjoy taking pictures, traveling with no destination, and writing narrative stories. My feelings that I am misplaced in this world are plentiful, and I am constantly trying to discover what else is out there.

Karen Muir
My name is Karen Muir. I split my time between Brooklyn and Manhattan, New York (depending on the amount of rent money i can scrape together). I am an english major at Marymount Manhattan College. I spend my time flying through the city that never sleeps and coasting through the new york minutes.

Denise Hart
Hello, everyone... hello new family! Whoa... describe myself. Hmmm... I am almost 40 years old, a writer, mother of two exceptionally cool kids, a reader. I like movies and conversation. I like music and art. As I write this, I�m struck by how little I function as a creator--I guess my main function is an appreciator. I appreciate almost any honest effort to enliven or enlighten (I said honest... no churchspeak, now) life here. I�m lonesome for my own kind, sometimes. I�m pretty glad to have found you all... It�s good to be home.

Steve Lowik
I am Steve Ivy-6 Lowik, I am also called The Abs-tracked one. But my best friends call me Goose, don't ask. I hail from the great T-dot, Toronto for you who are unfamiliar with the term. I want to act, I want to write, I want to create music, I want to be a well known artist instead of a starving one, but we all "want"...don't we? Inside I am full of nicotine, THC, and coffee. I swear my blood runs brown. Third eye vision-Hierogylphics y'all!

Liz Vennum
I am 16 and will be a senior when the summer ends. That's the oldest I've ever been and it scares me, but I get the feeling there's no turning back, so...off I go. I like reading, writing, playing the bassoon, sleeping, daydreaming, going wandering, and staring at the sky. I like broccoli and I have one cosmic question--when I'm saying goodbye to someone, and I know I will never see him/her again, why is it rude to say "have a nice life?" I think it's a pleasant enough sentiment. Have a nice life! I would feel flattered if someone said that to me.

Andrew Scott
So yea i'm Andrew Scott, an english major at Colorado University in Boulder, Co. My hobbies are scuba diving, ultimate frisbee, reading, writing, and oh pretty much doing just about anything fun; i like to take full moon night hikes in my spare full moon time. I also ski and snowboard quite a bit, and enjoy wakeboarding in the summer, but since i am boatless at the moment, my wakeboard isn't doing me much good. I think way too much, always searching for the truth and such; where i'm at right now, my conclusion, of late, or solution, of late, to the problems that our precious earth faces is that, well: we live in a huge universe, a universe in which planets, stars, and solar systems, are at this moment dissapearing, exploding, or being sucked into black holes if you will. These natural universal events occur with or without the intervention, involvement, or presence of our funny little human race. So what does it all mean? Well what it means to me, and it's quite reassuring, is that no matter how much we screw the pooch down here on earth, and given, the universe does have to deal with the bad vibes we put out down here, the bottom line is that it's all good, it's only experience, this earth will perish, with or without us, so if only we can learn from our experiences here, we might come back better people two trillion light years away, on a pretty little mother earth like this one, and maybe we can do a better job there; after all, the smarty pantses are saying now that the universe is infinite, ever expanding, folding, and expanding again, so hey, anything is possible.

David William
I'm originally from Central NY, I got my BA in Studio Art (Drawing) out in Western NY, (both towns are fairly unknown, so I don't even bother mentioning them) and now I'm doing graduate work and teaching undergrad classes at the University of Connecticut, going for my MFA. I'm technically in the Painting program, but I try to make art with whatever I can. I'm getting big into 'painting' with concrete and wax, and attaching found objects. I'm all about taking things out of context and giving them new homes, I guess. Beyond quote-unquote "fine art", I'm involved with several off-kilter expressions of humour - the main one being a comic strip printed in a couple of college newspapers, but coming sometime soon-ish to a website. In addition to art, music is a constant presence in my life. I play acoustic guitar and various sorts of hand percussion...either alone or with whomever is around to play with, and I vocalize on occasion. I listen to all sorts of anything, but have recently been especially enamored with Tom Waits. I also enjoy baffling people with the fact that RACE CAR spelled backwards still spells RACE CAR.