About

photo by Russell White. Burketown, Australia 2009.

This blog began in 2009 with clouds. I received a Watson Fellowship to spend one year traveling around the world exploring how unusual clouds affect the people that live beneath them.  I traveled to Australia to see the morning glory cloud, to Sweden to see nacreous clouds (my favorite clouds), and also to Iceland, New Zealand, Norway, and Scotland. If you're looking for a good place to start, try here.  From that journey, I just haven't put the pen (or camera) down. This blog is about making the world a more interesting place. Thanks for stopping by.


the writer

My name is Laura. I grew up on an old farm in Sharpsburg, Georgia, full of cousins and box turtles, spring orchids and moonshine stills rusting in the woods. Maybe because of that, I feel drawn to the narratives of places, especially rural, Southern ones. I love the wildness of the South and its many strains of music. I'm curious about how our experiences with wonder and beauty influence how we live. I live with my family in Sewanee, Tennessee. 

After bouncing around the public radio world for a few years in North Dakota and at WUNC in North Carolina, I now work in marketing at America's oldest cast iron cookware manufacturer, Lodge Cast Iron. When I'm not working, I fill my time with family, gardening, cooking, crafting, and playing fiddle. I am pursuing a low-res MFA in poetry at Spalding University.