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top and i can see the ocean on all sides it s connected to nature to the tides the smell of the ocean everything we loved about the hermosa house it s funky and i can t wait to join him there right now i m here overseeing the construction of the new digs and finishing up my rachel carson picture book biography which i think comes out in fall of 2017 or it may be spring of 2018 there was an announcement about it from my publisher in publishers weekly a little bit ago that had the date i am set up in my parents kitchen with my monitors and digital tablet and fred is in mauritius with doing what he does so well using his optimism for a better tomorrow in africa making a difference his mornings are spent paddle boarding on clear turquoise water with sea turtles and color fishes and i am here walking on white sand beached collecting treasure from the ocean and paddle boarding through mangroves well we did that together actually sarasota is the perfect compliment to mauritius it s full or arts culture great food and an endless variety of enrichment activities like great jazz music so now we go forward with sarasota as our american homeless and mauritius what a life i would have never predicted but then again nothing in my life have i predicted nothing except being an artist i am feeling very fortunate indeed we live in two white sand beach areas with the most amazing birds and clouds and wherever we are together it s just like when we first stepped into the hermosa house and made it our own posted by stephanie roth sisson at 5 36 pm no comments april a lot has happened since in the last three years there has been very little time for reflection we have always been on the move even before the three years just before we made the decision for us to start a new company on the podunk island i had never heard of before mauritius we had been in constant flux constantly adjusting when we bought the hermosa house we were in a very different place in our lives we thought that we would retire there even though at the time we bought it we were both in our early 40 s i was 41 and actually fred was still in his late 30 s when we walked into the house for the first time it was after having gone house hunting up in washington state we had both caught some awful respiratory thing and had gotten back to slo and climbed into my old 92 nissan sentra with the dent in the door and saw an open house sign on the way back to our apartment the realator no doubt looked to the car and us and thought that there was no way these two could afford this house here by the sea we walked in and instantly loved it and then we put in an offer we had so much fun remodeling it people said it would ruin our relationship that remodeling was one of the most stressful things a couple could do years later i heard the story of just such a case down the street where a twenty some year marriage went kaput over a remodel we made that faux cape cod bungalow into something pretty amazing and we loved it we traced out names into the concrete on the garden wall after we built it after we moved to mru i would fly back four times a year for my work to see friends and to connect with something familiar mauritius had not been so fun for me a male dominated hindu culture with nerve shattering driving conditions an over spraying of pesticides ah yes did i mention my next book is about rachel carson and a disconnect from nature facilitated by the compounds that ex pats live surrounded by walls both to keep things out and in my trips were about a month or longer in duration and would time with tristam s school needs and once a year with the scbwi conference in la to meet with the tribe this last year it became clear that we were not going to return to hermosa for another 10 years or so i hadn t realized it but being there was starting to depress me on the one hand i loved it the sound of the waves at night from our bedroom the smell of the ocean air the comfort of being in a place that is yours and familiar to you but it was becoming a ghost of an idea that had been laid out as a couple and here i was alone so we sold it our wonderful realtor put up the sign and i remember the pang in my heart and our amazing neighbors and dear friends helped us to keep the place up while it was on the market and it sold quickly and we are building a place in sarasota florida on the other side of the county but still on the west coast of that state just down the street from my parents i packed up the hermosa house and then movers meathead movers would not recommend fyi came and put our stuff into a box it waits somewhere in california for word to have it shipped out to florida posted by stephanie roth sisson at 5 23 pm no comments sunday april 10 2016 first post of the year and it s april that s how things have been going so much has happened in the last months including a trip home to california a trip out to florida and washington d c as well as coming back here to mauritius here are some pictures of home downtown slo taking care of the ladies in our worm bin tending to the garden taking in the sublime central coast sunsets this time both fred and i flew into the u s together we haven t been home together for a couple of years now and it was wonderful and it was the holidays the town as decked out in enchanting little white lights and we broke out our boxes of holiday decorations and used all of them had an absolutely great time posted by stephanie roth sisson at 3 28 am no comments friday november 27 2015 geeking out at the who shop in london anyone home christmas dalek yes i think i hear someone in there weeping angel don t blink posted by stephanie roth sisson at 4 32 am 1 comment catching up with star stuff carl sagan and the mysteries of the cosmos fred and i just got back from a quick trip to london where i got to meet a woman i consider a true genius viviane schwarz we have been virtual studio colleagues a term she coined for ummm at least 10 years anyhow we got to hang out for whole day we went to the tate modern and went from hot drink to hot drink which is what she said londoners do it was freezing so i totally get the tea thing now anyhow i did a check of star stuff when we got back to mauritius and found the following stuff star stuff as a top 20 books of 2015 the orbis pictus honor for star stuff what to read to your kids common sense media and ala notable books and many wonderful bloggers out there thank you posted by stephanie roth sisson at 4 23 am no comments sunday november 15 2015 pictures from home sunset down the street california rain a writer s typewriter at the slo center for the arts art an sweet girl at the dias del do muertos in the mission plaza in slo love what she did with her crutches i wish that i had gotten a few more pictures of her i only took this one posted by stephanie roth sisson at 5 46 am no comments the planetary society s 35th anniversary and bill nye the science guy with bill nye the science guy at the opening event of the planetary society s 35th anniversary carl sagan s table at the planetary society me signing the white board at the planetary society s headquarters neil degrasse tyson accepting the cosmos award it was presented by nichelle nichols aka lieutenant uhura from the orginal star trek total goddess btw susan ganz schmit shane prigmore cecil castellucci and me posted by stephanie roth sisson at 5 11 am no comments over a month without an entry i think that this is a record i haven t blogged in over a month it s not that i haven t been thinking about it it s that i have been a bit busy mostly i have been on the road i flew from mauritius to california then in california i made a ver trips attending the planetary society s 35th anniversary in pasadena heading up to the bay area to meet with my amazing agent abigail samoun and then over to pebble beach to visit my dear friend dina in between all of that i got to attend my critique group s meeting and learned that one of our members is being published for the first time her name in cindy rankin and she comes up with some of the most original and engaging material in the group her book about the 1906 san francisco earthquake had a character in it that has been living with most of us who have been fortunate enough to get to know her for the last few years we have been begging cindy to send her book out into the world she has and someone in the publishing world fell in love with her as we did i also got to see my dear friend sharon lovejoy on three different occasions i first made contact with sharon when i was still in college she wrote a book called sunflower houses that i was absolutely in love with i wrote to her all of those years ago and then in 2000 or 2001 i was invited to join a critique group and there was sharon we have been great friends ever since kindred spirits when i was in town i don t let many people know that i was there the days were filled with work and meetings and i have a hard time no to people i care about fred and i will both be back in california for the holidays and hope to catch up with our dear ones then in the meantime elephants posted by stephanie roth sisson at 5 00 am no comments monday october 05 2015 getting ready to fly across the globe i ve done it a bunch of times now fly across the globe it takes 29 hours to go from the airport here in mauritius until arrival in los angeles it s a long haul i m getting a bit better at it i watch lots of movies and try to sleep as much as possible one thing that i have learned is that that is too dang long of a flight to get into a car afterwards and drive another 3 or so hours home and feel safe about my driving so now i get a hotel room in l a before the final leg which does not include the 29 hours i used to feel that it was a crazy travel time but i ve read since about the times when making that journey took months by ship very unpleasant and precarious months so ship of the air not bad and it s emirates which is just about as nice as an airline gets los angeles international has become my favorite airport to arrive at in california because of this it s got a sense of humor and place plus the traffic has gotten so bad coming back from san francisco or san jose that i am not bothered by the traffic in l a anymore but when i get home the miles melt away the smell of the pacific which smells different than the indian ocean the pelicans and our home i wish that fred was coming with of that trip i ll have to wait for awhile in the meantime i have dear friends to see and some kids to tell about carl sagan i love that there is now a sort of my first carl sagan book out there posted by stephanie roth sisson at 8 58 am no comments wednesday september 30 2015 three day wedding and uncle fred a good friend of ours here bestowed a really sweet honor onto fred she asked him to be her uncle at her wedding the uncle presents trays of offerings to the groom s family the groom also has an uncle who does the same for the bride s family the wedding took place over 3 days here are some highlights jess heading to the wedding she had to change saris 5 times during the ceremony this is sari number one gorgeous right the trays being prepared with sweets fruits perfume and a sari me and uncle fred before the ceremony that sari took two friends about 40 minutes to put on me it s one big long piece of cloth wrapped pleated tucked and draped and held in place by a lot of safety pins after a 3 hour ceremony the couple walking 7 times around the center alter and then they were married one of the after parties the final dance was a sega dance the traditional music dance style of mauritius posted by stephanie roth sisson at 4 58 am no comments back in the mu heading back to ca for an important gig i have been back in mauritius for over a month now and am settled in again summer is coming on this side of the planet it s getting warmer there is more birdsong and i am awoken by sunlight coming in the window because the angle is now just right i haven t written for awhile i haven t really felt like it until now not sure really why maybe because i have so much writing to do for books and spend so much time in my studio at the computer anyhow today i feel like it so hello this morning i saw a needle fish darting across the surface of the water such and odd looking creature close to the shore brown jelly fish sat and tried to push themselves back into the indian ocean a man picked one up i gasped wouldn t he be stung not that kind of jelly fish these had ridden the north winds onto to shore and they were harmless they are moon jellyfish it s just 10 days to go and i am off to the u s again this time to speak at the 35th anniversary of the planetary society of which carl sagan was a founding member i couldn t pass that up could i no it will be the first book event that i attend for star stuff carl sagan and the mysteries of the cosmos i was here when the book came out and then for most of the year it s going to be a whirlwind trip i arrive home in california on the 13th speak and sign books in pasadena on the 24th and fly out south africa for 10 days on the 25th then back to mauritius i m glad i m doing all of this traveling now while i can it is exhausting and i can see losing my appetite for going to far flung places in a few years then i think i will content myself with my garden my work and family in the meantime here are some photos of mauritius a village weaver more bananas than we know what to do with from a tree in the backyard the bummer is that they go ripe almost all at once double rainbows posted by stephanie roth sisson at 4 39 am no comments noodle puts star stuff carl sagan and the mysteries of the cosmos into and infographic the folks at noodle com who specialize in all things educational put star stuff carl sagan and the mysteries of the cosmos into an infographic how cool is that what an honor to be in the company of those books posted by stephanie roth sisson at 4 18 am no comments friday september 25 2015 the most outstanding fact of life and a fascinatingly disturbing thought posted by stephanie roth sisson at 6 25 am no comments sunday september 13 2015 the time you have in jellybeans perspective posted by stephanie roth sisson at 6 09 am no comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom translate subscribe to posts atom posts all comments atom all comments about me stephanie roth sisson here you will find doodles ramblings and goings on from my life as a roving writer and illustrator of books for children view my complete profile my website stephanitely star stuff carl sagan and the mysteries of the cosmos the sunhat princess posey and the crazy lazy vacation princess posey and the first grade boys princess posey and the christmas magic a pocketful of princess posey august 2014 princess posey and the valentine s day ballet princess posey and the new first grader princess posey and the tiny treasure princess posey and the 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