Stephanie Klein's Greek Tragedy

peeping tom turned peeping mom

A mom’s gotta do what a mom’s gotta do. This mom had to peep. Slip into Little Miss’s ballet + tap dance class, through the crack in the blinds. I actually like the dream sequence feel the blinds…

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a year in review: scrap forward

I wouldn’t say that I’m a last-minute kind of girl, not aloud anyway. More like a last-month-of-the-year kind of girl. I wasn’t always like this, either. In school, I always finished all my homework on Friday night, so I’d have…

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advice: photography lady on the street & a freak in the bed

QUESTION FROM A GREEK TRAGEDY READER: I love photography and have been a photo freak since I was little. My dad always had camera on hand, and I got that from him. Now, I’m not a pro by any means,…

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connections

  Hung’s Anne Heche, Author Stephanie Klein, Author A.M. Homes No internet access all weekend.  Photos from East Hampton’s Author’s Night to come… first, I must get the beans dressed for their last dinner with Grandma & Grandpa before…

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look what the dog coughed up: nope, not my homework

While I’m really beginning to love Austin with all the new restaurants popping up, I’m never going to love this: Norma coming to me, panic-stricken, saying I must see "the animal Bikini has in his mouth." Something in me fluttered.…

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lavender buds

This weekend, we headed to Stonewall, Texas for a lavender festival. Dulce had once given me a Lavender Cookbook, so I was looking forward to stocking up. Except, with the weather being what it was–total Etta James weather–the festival was…

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i want to eat them even more than carbs. okay, just as much.

I realized they’re no longer tadpoles or beans. They’re sprouts, for sure. For the couples baby shower, we hung Lucas’s newborn clothes on a clothes line in…

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memories for sale

Several people have asked–and I haven’t had time until now– if I’d add my photographs from New Orleans to my photography site. The amazing thing about what art can do for a room, for a house, for a…

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peju pink

For Valentine’s Day, Phil surprised me with a case of Peju Provence California Red & White Blend, my favorite selection from our visit in Napa. I presented him with his and her lenses: a 50 mm f1.4 for…

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meat sundaes: barbecue in austin, tx

More of my "Dude Ranch" photos >> Yesterday we drove to Lockhart, the BBQ Capital of Texas, to taste-test some meat sundaes. They weren’t real meat sundaes the way they’re done in Montana, with a pile of "moist" brisket…

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