Mary Panttaja

Goodness.

It’s been a long time since I have posted here. Where has the time gone?

Well, things have changed and we’ve been very busy: launching RebelVox, moving to SF, putting the Healdsburg house on the market for vacation rentals (Kokopelli Retreat), moving apartments (one last time), bicycling, studying sailing, and the usual keeping up. I have not been writing on either the novel or the book. But have been keeping some of that skill fresh writing patents (several dozens)—a total new venue for me.

We are taking a week of vacation finally—heading Monday to Ashland for our 9 plays in 5 days. A small group this time, only a dozen of us. All our kids are coming along. Erin and Tom, the theatre experts, get to really drown themselves. The rest of us just enjoy and explore our way through.

So we’ll see if I can manage to post some commentary about the plays this week. Hard to imagine—but maybe easier to do than I think. No promises.

On the reading theme—reading my daughter’s gift: The Open Road, The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama by an author she met in Boston, in preparation for our trip to Madison; and The Mind and the Brain (Schwartz, Begley) inspired by the story, book, and TED talk of Jill Bolte Taylor.

All is very very well.