After a year of living nomadically, traveling mostly by train and boat through South Asia, Europe, and North America, settled in SoCal to start a theatre company - a peripatetic one with no home of its own.  All programs take place out in schools and community organizations such as shelters, recovery programs, hospitals, prisons, and senior centers.

Although still in SoCal, it felt like a move to a new country to leave the world of non-profit arts management (and much of my identity) after 23 years of developing the theatre company, and then climb into academia to work on my MA in Art History.

And how has that influenced who I am?  I can't say that I belong to any one tribe and I find myself suspicious of those who do.  I am deeply attached to friends and family although I don't always know what some of them look like any more.  I tend to stand on the outside and observe before jumping in, although I work to interact differently in groups so that the observer becomes only one of the roles I might choose.  There are few things that make me happier than setting off on a  journey.  By putting myself in the way of exercises like this, I try to take stock of past experiences to plot the journey of the next few years.  I wonder where I will live in the future.