Katherine was born at a young age in Memphis, TN. As a girl, she enjoyed playing with frogs, taming rare liger hybrids, and moonlighting for B.B. King’s backup band as pianist and backup soul singer. On her yearly family vacations to Florida, she developed a deep love for the beach; the grittiness of the sand; the stinging saltiness of the water; and, being a cold-blooded animal, the sweltering heat of the sun. She didn’t meet Daniel until she was much older, but if they had met at this young age, they both agree that they would have awkwardly avoided each other when she wasn’t kicking him in the shins and running away.

Katherine only knew of Daniel peripherally in high school as the unobtainably handsome gentleman with the most beautifully-colored mysterious hubcaps. After going on to pursue science and pre-med in college, she reconnected with Daniel and asked him to play badminton with her and take her to a movie. They continued to deepen their relationship by playing hide-and-seek through Scotland, Chicago, Memphis, Biloxi, and Boston. She finally caught him in Nashville and, having decided she was tired of hide-and-seek, cast a petrificus totalus spell to bind him from fleeing.

Katherine loves her dog Brother, whom she has taught Haitian Creole and the Charleston, and in her free time, she enjoys deconstructing and reconstructing brains, inter-special neurological transplants and gazing at sheep.

Daniel Coppedge Douglass Danger Velociraptor McDonell was born on the auspicious date of Friday the 13th and shortly thereafter commenced a life of adventure and revelry, with the ultimate goal of establishing himself as a true Gentleman of Leisure. It was in this state that Katherine first met him, cruising around in his blue Toyota Pickup with bright green hub caps and blasting Jethro Tull from an oversized subwoofer. He had assembled a motley crew of fellow rapscallions who went around saying things like "beautimostophostohippopostomostophostomous" and reciting the phenotypic ratio of a second generation dihybrid cross. Katherine was not impressed. Several years passed and Daniel moved to Chicago, where he quickly gained notoriety amongst his Delta Chi brothers and rugby teammates with his free spirit and relish for the extreme.

In 2006 he decided to push his life of leisure to the limit, achieving the ultimate dream of becoming a snowboard bum in Steamboat, Colorado. But by the time he returned to Memphis the next summer, his exploits had finally caught up with him. He had planned to hike the Appalachian Trail but was instead stranded at home after a shoulder surgery. Katherine also happened to be in Memphis that summer, and in a post-operative haze he called her up to take him to a movie. Over the next few weeks they began to spend more time together, and finally she began to see the man behind the mystery. One August evening he stole her heart with a perfectly marinated portobello mushroom, and she won his by laughing at a particularly ridiculous whale joke. Eight short years later, after chasing each other through four different cities across two countries, they now live in Nashville with their furry life partner named Brother. Daniel leads a somewhat quieter life and enjoys gardening, perfecting the art of scrambled eggs, and testing the limits of of reinheitsgebot. His dream is to start a rescue organization for neglected plants transported by a bike share program in Amsterdam using recycled water from melted snow on the green roof of a bouncy castle. He still makes a fantastic portobello mushroom, and Katherine continues to laugh at his whale joke every time.

As Katherine and Daniel’s spirit guide, Brother deserves a special biography. However, having paws instead of fingers has made typing difficult, and he limited his entry to the following dictation:

“Serious, I must always serious. Dramatic forehead wrinkles, SQUIRREL. Bark, serious. Treats? I sit. Thank you.”