Christabel grew up in rural Oregon in a close family hailing from four continents. She is now settled in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and alternately one or all of their three children. Her office is filled with bows, arrows, horse tack, piles of paper and books, scattered projects, someone's small dog, and a possible cat. Her life motto is to leave it better than she found it: except for her office, where maintenance is a noble enough goal.