My name is Stephanie. I’m a writer, painter, photographer and naturalist but I’m also a mother of two little boys. They are my primary gig, the framework upon which everything else is woven, and it all goes down neatly in this weblog. It does NOT go down neatly in my home.
I was born in Houston and have no trace of an accent to prove this, which disappoints most people. I also don’t ride a horse to the grocery store. But I have ridden a horse through the drive-thru window at Red Line Burger, before I had the common sense to drive a car. And a car.
I studied industrial design in Providence, biology in College Station, and dentistry in Houston and San Francisco. In my second year of dental school I had a nervous breakdown on the way to school one morning, realizing before I even hit the mental hospital, that all I really wanted to do was stay home and raise a family. Within a year I was home with my first son, Ford.
It wasn’t until my second son, Chas, was born that I began this weblog as a way to remember all that motherhood ephemera.
We are Texans, even if one of us was born in California. We live in Saratoga, California so that my husband, Damon, can direct a bunch of brilliant codemonkeys at Mozilla and so I can take the boys to tide pools when the moon and the earth are lined up just so.
We have one dog: a twelve year-old Jack Russell Terrier puppy named Seti, who will always fight for alpha with my husband and focus on the frisbee because I can’t.
I LOVE pureed jalapenos with salt, Anejo tequila, lavender honey with lime juice and lying on my surfboard next to otters in between sets. I also love to draw with ink. More than anything I love my boys.
I am currently working on a children’s book and pining for another baby.
