Dow in first grade
CHILDHOOD
- Dow grew up in Skokie, Illinois and took a gazillion lessons in her childhood. These included: gymnastics, ballet, jazz, tap, piano, guitar, electric guitar, ice skating, judo, art, Thai lessons, Thai dance lessons, and swimming. Probably there are more that she has blocked out of her memory.
- Dow grew up in Skokie, Illinois and took a gazillion lessons in her childhood. These included: gymnastics, ballet, jazz, tap, piano, guitar, electric guitar, ice skating, judo, art, Thai lessons, Thai dance lessons, and swimming. Probably there are more that she has blocked out of her memory.
- Her full name means “like a star.” Her dad made it up by switching around the Thai word for satellite (Dowtiem became Tiemdow). It’s a unique name. Dow (or “star") is a very common Thai nickname.
- Her dad was a Royal Thai Air Force pilot. Her brother’s full name means vast sky (Vahass).
- Her mom was a nurse. There were several pilot-nurse marriages back then because the nursing school was across the road from the Air Force Academy in Bangkok.
- Her mom was a nurse. There were several pilot-nurse marriages back then because the nursing school was across the road from the Air Force Academy in Bangkok.
Assorted pictures: kindergarten, with big brother, playing with my Spirograph, in Thai dance costume
Basil in tuxedo
PETS
- She had one dog many, many years ago named Bingo. And in 2020, she adopted a dog that her daughters named Basil. He is a cutie pie!
- We enjoy dressing Basil up. He doesn't mind at all.
- She has had cats named Cutie, Jumpy, Chanee (Thai for monkey), Cleo, Frisbee, and Ptera (short for Pteradactyl).
Lottie
- She can’t have cats anymore because of allergic family members.
- Instead she has had multiple small pets like Egg the hamster and Chrysanthemum the dwarf hamster and currently the hypoallergenic Basil.
- One of her favorite pets was Lottie the Bunny.
- One of her favorite pets was Lottie the Bunny.
GROWN UP DOW
- She was a nurse before becoming a doctor (before becoming a children’s book creator!).
- She has a husband and three daughters.
- She talks to herself regularly.
-Here is a photo of Dow at her medical school graduation.
RANDOM FACTS
- She tried to do a headstand for her daughter recently and could not. And she won’t ever try that again, because her back hurt for a month afterwards.
- She can ride a bike no-handed for at least 30 seconds (last done 2017, so not sure if she still can).
- Her favorite food is Tom Ka Gai (Thai coconut chicken soup).- She wrote and illustrated a book at age 9 for her fourth grade teacher called The Pink and Yellow Sunhat.
- She doesn’t have that anymore because of a fire in her house when she was 9.
- She can ride a bike no-handed for at least 30 seconds (last done 2017, so not sure if she still can).
- Her favorite food is Tom Ka Gai (Thai coconut chicken soup).- She wrote and illustrated a book at age 9 for her fourth grade teacher called The Pink and Yellow Sunhat.
- She doesn’t have that anymore because of a fire in her house when she was 9.
- She once knocked over a full tray of water glasses that a waiter was bringing to the table when giving directions to her friend.
- She wrote and illustrated a book at age 9 for her fourth grade teacher called The Pink and Yellow Sunhat.
- She doesn’t have that anymore because of a fire in her house when she was 9.
- She once knocked over a full tray of water glasses that a waiter was bringing to the table when giving directions to her friend.
- She doesn’t have that anymore because of a fire in her house when she was 9.
- She once knocked over a full tray of water glasses that a waiter was bringing to the table when giving directions to her friend.
