How I got here, in reverse
My main focus now is on writing and editing magazine articles for Ogden Publications, which publishes homestead and farming related content.
Once I decided to gradually downsize my herd and change my focus to writing and editing, I started writing a cozy mystery series, set on a goat farm, entitled Hidden Creek Farm Mysteries. So far, I have completed two of them, Shed Boy and Gone Goat.
Before I wrote Goat Midwifery, I was the person other goat keepers called at 2am, because I'd finally learned what to watch for.
Before Goat Midwifery, I (mostly) wrote and edited my most well-known and practical book, Goat Health Care, which has sold over 2,000 copies and is now in its second edition.
Before that, I was editing Ruminations — the Nigerian Dwarf and Mini Dairy Goat Magazine — trying to answer the questions I once had myself.
Before the magazine, I was just a new goat owner at Mystic Acres, with the beginning of my herd, milking, and dabbling in cheesemaking, and no idea what I was in for.
And before any of it, I was practicing nonprofit law — writing on the right to die and medical cannabis, reading everything, trusting nothing until I'd tested it, and not yet knowing that habit would end up on a farm instead of in a courtroom.
I didn't set out to become a goat person. Meeting a French goat owner in Iowa, and lots of happenstance along the way, led me to the goats, which then took it over, in the best possible way.
