She lives in Florida with her husband Jim Stevenson, a wildlife biologist, where the couple delight in observing local Wood Ducks, Wood Storks, Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks, and Hooded Mergansers in a cypress swamp near their house. After learning how important the habitat is for such species, the couple felt compelled to purchase 45 acres of the cypress swamp in 2007, which they now manage as a wildlife sanctuary.