About Me — Stephanie Thurrott

I like to write, travel, and watch baseball, not necessarily in that order

Me in Barcelona, back when we could explore the world. (Photo credit: Paul Thurrott)

I write about almost anything. Right now clients are paying me for articles on:

• Narcissists
• One of the most powerful telescopes in the world
• The COVID-19 vaccines
• Acne scars
• Fighting racism with lament
• Insomnia in the pandemic

That’s not everything I’m working on, but you get the idea. Plus I write about writing, health, cooking, personal growth, and productivity on Medium.

Here’s a little bit about me:

I grew up in a great family in Swansea, a middle-class coastal town that’s in the part of Massachusetts that’s not Boston, Cape Cod, or the Berkshires. It’s where I learned to love clam boils and morning mist rising off a river in winter, and where I figured out that horses and I were never going to be friends. It’s a great place to be a kid, if you ever get the opportunity.

I always loved to read and can’t remember when I learned how— it feels like something I’ve always known how to do. My parents had books, newspapers, and magazines in the house all the time, and my mother took my sister, brother…