Steph, Author at The Keay

Announcing the launch of my new website (at last)

February 25, 2020

I recently decided that I wanted to create a portfolio website for my writing, photography, and art endeavors. It's been a year of big change and personal growth; of rediscovering myself and branching out in ways I haven't in a long time. I'm happy to announce that I've begun to delve into my more creative side, and that it's been coming up roses! After buckling down to complete the website last weekend (and nitpicking every last bug to death over this past week), I'm officially ready to take it live today. Although I ma[...]

Sunday Best: July 28, 2019

July 28, 2019

A quick and dirty update because something is usually better than nothing (though not always). Tarantino. The cinematic mastermind's penultimate film finally came out this weekend, and I snagged tickets to the 70mm screening of "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood" at Alamo Drafthouse up in the city. I'd been following early reviews all last week (Mick LaSalle's and A.O. Scott's were two well-written favorites), and did some light background reading courtesy of Michael Hainey's conversation with Tarantino, Pitt, and DiCaprio i[...]

Self-Respect.

July 24, 2019

Posted In: Love & Relationships | Personal

There's something I want to talk about. It's eight minutes to midnight, on a Tuesday. The air is thick, the kind of heat that makes you feel sticky even when you’re fresh out of the shower. I'm sitting at my desk with a tumbler two fingers full with a semi-cloying apricot wine, and Two Feet's "Go F*ck Yourself" is blaring through my earphones. And I want to talk about something important that's been bothering me. I had a hell of a week that brought up an important topic. I have a proclivity to get the hell out of do[...]

Sunday Best: June 2, 2019

June 2, 2019

It’s tough to find the time to update but I figure one post a year is better than nothing! A lot has changed since April 2018. Here’s a quick rundown of what’s going on as of late. Health. I’ve really gotten into eating healthy and working out this year. It wasn’t even a resolution (one I make and fail to stick with most years), but I got to a point where I was just sick and tired of feeling sick and tired. I’m now a little obsessed with Barry’s Bootcamp, a pretty bougie establishment with a smoothie bar and "c[...]

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Dinner for Millennials

April 11, 2018

Posted In: Cooking | Food

Ah, La Croix. The nectar of the LA Tan-ned, Soul Cycling, Instagram influencer gods. Also known as the lightly-flavored carbonated drink that tastes like drinking water while someone yells out the name of a fruit in the other room. I saw this absurd recipe on Facebook, and just couldn't resist. How terribly, awfully millennial. I spent a good chunk of my third year in university at my boyfriend-at-the-time's house; a small split-level shared with three other guys. Posters of Scarface, hockey players, and scantily-clad wo[...]