About Laura

When I was seven, I wrote in my diary, "I would like to be a riter someday." (Since then, I've learned how to spell.) That same year, my family moved from my childhood home in Fort Collins, Colorado, to a nearby ranch. And thus the two loves of my life: books and the natural world.

Childhood? Well, I remember a whole gaggle of us, including raccoons and rabbits and goats and pigs. There were newborn calves in our kitchen in the middle of the night, their new soft hooves sliding across linoleum as they tried to nurse from Coke bottles filled with milk. There were peacocks wandering around, some of whom also came into the kitchen. There were cats giving birth into our shoes in our closet, and there were many frozen dead animals in the freezer.

I left Colorado for education and adventure, but then came back. These days, I’m back to writing from a little house near the mountains. From my window I see red foothills and the blue mountains beyond. I also see the dog carrying around a deer bone from a mountain lion kill, and chickens that kick up grass right next to deer. The sun sets, a bald eagle flies by. Life is good.

So, that's enough about me. Now, I'd like to hear from you. My email address is l_Pritchett@msn.com.