After moving to Texas nearly twenty years ago, I received my Texas Master Naturalist certification. Although I live and write from my home in the Texas Hill Country, I am originally from Northern Virginia. I have also lived in New England, and I return often to a very special place on the Maine Coast.
Through my stories, I explore the ways in which people connect with nature. Sometimes I write about places that are small and close to home (a rotting log or the creatures beneath a rock); sometimes I write about faraway places (a cave in Kauai or a bay in Maine). Lately, much of my writing has come from my backyard, a place where the wild things roam—caterpillars, lizards, deer, and roadrunners, just to name a few. My family (my husband and three sons) and I have spent the last seven years trying to restore a little one-acre patch of overgrazed ranch land and turn it into a native prairie. While I’m not sure it has been a success (Johnson grass and fire ants - argh!), it has kept us busy and provided a place to view ecology in action at all times, a place to feel connected to the larger world. I also love to read. Annie Dillard wrote: “She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.” Yes, that’s me. Books have had such an impact on my experience in the world that I have come to think of the writers as friends and mentors. Here are some of my favorite nature writers whose words, I imagine, will make frequent appearances here on this blog:
Connect With Nature Through Story: I hope this blog will encourage you to connect with nature - to explore the natural world through story, whether you write, read, take pictures, or simply wander. Stories await right outside your door or window, and if you are lucky, in a few faraway places, too. And, finally, I hope that you will be inspired to go out and share your stories with the world.
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7/20/2023 08:35:04 am
I can't wait to read more and reconnect with you after all these years. You have chosen the best authors and poets as they are timeless.
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AuthorLaurie Roath Frazier has worked as a science educator and naturalist for more than twenty years and writes about the ecology of places, near and far. She lives in New Braunfels, Texas, the gateway to the Hill Country, where she loves creating wildlife habitat and exploring wild places with her husband and three sons. In 2008 she became a Texas Master Naturalist. She also holds a Biology degree from Bates College, an M.Ed from Marymount University, an MS in Ecological Teaching and Learning from Lesley University, and an MA in Science Writing from Johns Hopkins University. |