<p>An award winning author and blogger, Stephanie Kepke’s second grade teacher told her she should be a writer and she hasn’t wavered in her path since. In her past life—before kids—Stephanie was an arts reporter and music journalist. She lives in New York on Long Island with her husband, her three very active boys and two slightly crazy rescue dogs (one of whom is three-legged). She lives right in between the Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean—and loves to have her toes in the sand.</p>