With wanderlust and curiosity that knew few bounds, Cindy Blobaum worked and traveled around the United States and Australia before settling down in Iowa. Her jobs have included positions as a seasonal zoo keeper, quality control technician at a potato chip factory, carnival barker, waitress, and ice skating guard. Her professional life is as a naturalist (aka field trip lady), educator and mom. Time and experience have shown that her strengths lie in making science understandable and fun through activities and unusual explanations, which she channels through her books, programs, elementary science methods classes, school presentations, and WFH curriculum writing.