Karen GoatKeeper is a former high school science teacher with a degree in zoology from the University of California, Los Angeles. She now lives and raises Nubian dairy goats in the Missouri Ozarks. Living in the Ozark hills leads Karen GoatKeeper to enjoy walking the hills and photographing the plants and animals living there. She spends time gardening and cooking up her harvest then writes about country life and nature in weekly commentaries on her website. Writing fills much of Karen GoatKeeper's time. Her favorite topics are dairy goats, nature and science both in fiction and nonfiction. A