Hi everyone! I'm Sarah Stierch a.k.a. SarahVain!
I'm a professional writer and photographer living in beautiful Sonoma, California, in the heart of American Wine Country.
When I'm not writing and photographing for a living my passions (wine and travel), I'm contributing to Wikipedia, where over 11+ years I have contributed over 800 new articles and hundreds of thousands of edits.
My nickname, Sarah Vain, is my old DJ name. Yup, I was a club DJ for about 10 years in the Midwest, spinning electro, punk, new wave, industrial and gothic music.
I'm originally from Indianapolis, Indiana. The photograph of me above was when I was shooting the 99th running of the Indianapolis 500. I've been to 30 Indianapolis 500 races!
Prior to living in Sonoma, I resided in Washington, D.C. (mere blocks from the White House!) and Oakland, California.
Before I became a writer, I was a consulting museum curator at the Smithsonian Institution and Colonial Williamsburg.
I am a journalist, writing for national and regional publications. Currently, I write about wine and travel for Sonoma Magazine (http://www.sonomamag.com) and wine for Wine Enthusiast (http://www.winemag.com).
I review a lot of wine. It's a tough job, but someone's gotta do it, right?
I'm also a photographer. My work has been utilized by the NBA, California State Parks, National Park Service, Buzzfeed, Christian Post, the Utne Reader, Red Bull, Motorburn, the Financial Observer, Lonely Planet and many more.
The above photograph was taken at the Secession building in Vienna, Austria in 2013.
I'm also a radio show host at KSVY 91.3 FM Sonoma (http://www.ksvy.org). Every Tuesday 5PM-7PM PST.
How do I plan on contributing to Steemit?
- Writing about travel - including Wine Country!
- Writing food, beverage and travel related news.
- Sharing photography
- Sharing reviews of must-try wines
- Upvoting, commenting and following - of course!
- Finding inspiration from you.
Thank you @hotsauceislethal for introducing me to Steemit! I look forward to getting to know all of you!
Follow me on social
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarahstierch/
- Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/sarah_stierch
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sarahstierch (Note: I don't accept people I don't know as "friends")
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Missvain
Feel free to check out my work at my website: http://www.sarahstierch.com
Cheers!
Welcome to steemit :) This might be a great platform for your stories - maybe use the tag #fiction and #story for your writing besides #writing ;)
Resteemed you via @welcoming, my page for showcasing promising new users!
Greets, @theaustrianguy
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Thank you @welcoming a.k.a. @theaustrianguy for the warm welcome and for the tips! :)
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Welcome aboard the STEEM DREEM :-D
Hope you enjoy your stay!
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Ha! Thanks! I look forward to cruising around on your yacht photographing otters with fancy cameras sometime. ;-)
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You should have a nice $6 SBD
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I love goats!
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You got an upgoat worth roughly 6.62$ in post rewards that will be done by tincho.
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Sarah, this has to be the best introduction I have yet read. I'm hooked, and I will be looking through the links to learn more about this amazing life of yours. It's a pleasure to meet you :-)
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Wow, thanks @ledpaint!! I enjoyed your dinosaur post, as you know. I also see you like Motorhead - rock on, RIP Lemmy! I'm following you and look forward to great conversation here!
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Boy! Sarah, I don't know you handle such a tough job writing wine reviews. First you get intoxicated then you try to figure out what you drank.
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Ha! I actually spit most of the wine I taste, so I don't get intoxicated when I am working :)
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Welcome Sarah!
Followed! Your website looks cool!
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Cheers and yaddayaddayadda! :)
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Wow! Another interesting personality here in Steemit! I can’t wait for you to finally start posting your work here. Glad that you joined this platform, and I hope you’ll enjoy it as well. Steem on. 🤗💚
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Hi @meetmysuperego! Thanks for the warm welcome - looks like you and I have two big interests in common: food and travel! I'm excited to be here, thank you!
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Welcome Sarah! Have fun here on Steemit
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Thanks for the warm welcome @elegente! :)
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Hey! Welcome to the Steemit community! Glad to have you onboard 😁 I hope you enjoy your time in the platform and always remember to have fun! If you you want some everyday inspiration and motivation, then maybe check out my page. That's all I post about 😉 @made2travel
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Thanks @made2travel! Indeed, we both have travel in common. I look forward to exploring where you've been and where you are going! Cheers and thanks again :)
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Hi Sarah and welcome to steemit! Man I'm a wine lover as well, but I'm a total novice so look forward to some of that content perhaps.
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Hi @captainbob! Thanks for the welcome and glad to meet another wine enthusiast! What kind of wine are you currently drinking? Feel free to share any thoughts and I'm happy to write some [hopefully helpful] content around your wine interests! Cheers.
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My wife and I love fruity white dessert type wines such as Mascoto's and Riesling's.
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Awesome. I'll keep that in mind. I'm a big fan of riesling and gewurztraminer myself! I also like a great ice wine. I'll brainstorm some ideas!
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Welcome to the community. I look forward to following your content!
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Thanks @scottstevens! I'm excited to be here.
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@sarahvain Welcome to steemit. @hotsauceislethal Thanks a lot for introducing such a great personality to steemit. Hope to see some more of you very soon. Really loved you joined steemit. Love. Peace.
I'm a doctor by profession. Just feel free to ask anything related. I'll ask you regarding wine. Although I don't really drink wine but would love to if you recommend some. Thanks.
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Hi @drskhan90! Thanks for the warm welcome. I look forward to "chatting" wine and health with you!
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My pleasure dear. You are so beautiful. Let me guess something. You will be trending by tomorrow on #introduceyourself .
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Sarah, welcome. I'm in Oregon.
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Nice to meet you @joeyarnoldvn! Are you originally from the Netherlands? Great to meet another from the best coast! :D
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Welcome to steemit @sarahvain!
Im also new here on Steemit and searching for good peeps to follow.
Looking forward to more of your posts! :blush:
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Thank you @daddyyeah! Welcome to you!
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Nice, I like your blog and welkome to steemit, I wil follow you, and you are welcome to visit ny blog😀
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Thanks @heidimarie - I followed you!
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welcome steemit~ i will follow on you
if you want to come my blog
always open @jejuin
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thank you @jejuin :)
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Hi, welcome to steemit. I just noticed you posted to steemit wordmap so I checked out your blog. I look forward to more or your posts!
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Wow, hi @choogirl! I've seen your name around via Steemit Worldmap so I'm "honored" to have you here :) Thanks for reading!!
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Welcome Sarah from Canada!
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Cheers and thanks @giannid!! I used to live in Vancouver, actually.
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Welcome aboard and hello from Connecticut.
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Thank you @nytowl!! Excited to be here - stay warm in CT :)
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Welcome to Steemit Sarah, you did a lot of things. I like it. Have fun here.
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And I still am ;) Thanks for the warm welcome @alexwonderful.
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Wine and travel! I love that too!<3
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Great minds think alike! :)
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Exactly!:)
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Welcome to Steemit! Looks like you live a very interesting life, so I’m sure you’ll have tons of interesting content to contribute to the platform! I hope you love it here as much as we do! :)
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Thanks so much for popping by Melody - and for the warm welcome!
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Hey Sarah! I love a fellow Cali girl:) thanks for the welcome!
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Awe! Thank you and cheers!
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Nice to see a fellow new wave enthusiast on steemit! What are some of your favorite new wave acts? ... I'm crazy about Talking Heads, Kate Bush, Thompson Twins, The Cars.........
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I'm very fond of the Talking Heads and Kate Bush. Cars are great. Thompson Twins had some songs I like, a lot I don't. ;-) Favorite other new wave acts include Human League, Adam & the Ants, Depeche Mode (though they transcended new wave), Ultravox, New Order..... I could go on and on.
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Love Adam and the Ants and Depeche Mode. Speak n'Spell is one of the greatest 80s album IMO
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It was surely a game changer. Without that album there would be no Erasure, either. (Not a big Erasure fan but they have their place!)
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Thompson Twins definitely have some songs I don't like too. They went through a lot of different phases. Into The Gap was solid.
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Welcome to Steem! Excited to see all the things that you write about and will be sure to check out your website! Definitely could learn a thing or two about wine!
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Thanks so much pinojo - thanks for popping over from the @travelingsomm's thread! :D
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I just started following you, and wanted to take the time to say Welcome. ~Happy Steeming
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Welcome to Steemit and good to have you here! Sounds like you have done quite a bit in your life with contributions and 800 articles to wikipedia is a lot.
Hope you enjoy being here with this awesome community and can't wait to see more from you.
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Thanks so much @thegoliath for popping by and for the warm welcome. I'm excited to be here :)
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