 Japanese became a lifelong interest; upon her death in 2015, a Japanese-language instructional CD was found inserted in her car's CD player.Sometime in the nineties, when a fan arrived at Sapienza’s house early for a con–planning meeting and found her gardening, he pitched in to help, and one by one the other committee members did so too, as they arrived.Joe Mayhew warned people that if Baltimore won the 1998 Worldcon, all the committee members would wind up mowing Peggy Rae's lawn.