- For a production of Pinocchio, in the third grade, she played the part of the Blue Fairy.
- The first professionally done play she ever saw was Cyrano de Bergerac with Peter Donat at A.C.T. in San Francisco.
- A fourth generation San Franciscan, J.D. is a descendant of James P. Casey, who helped found one of the first San Francisco fire departments. He was later hung by the vigilantes of 1856, for being, well, a murderer and a politician. He was buried at Mission Dolores.
- She alternates writing using fountain pens and a Mac.
