Joan Ripple:  

The first communication I had from anyone, was from someone now deceased, who remembered me for ballet dancing. I remembered her beautiful blue eyes. I wanted to be an actress, but my Mother wanted me to be a doctor or a lawyer. When I had to drop Chemistry 1, a requsite for pre-med, because it conflicted with a drama class, I figured I could always be an attorney as drama and law go together. As it turned out I did none of that and all of that. I spent several years doing theatre work in local theatres and summer stock, wrote a screenplay from an unpublished book, and made a movie that was never released. When I worked for the California Senate and drafted health and disability legislation, legislative counsel provided the legal specifics for us. And, I should have gone to medical school - I now do health and disability research. Jim and I lived in North Carolina, Jeannette and Greensburg. After we divorced I moved to Marin County, California to become the director of Health Planning. Over the years Neila Edder Riggle and I have kept in touch, and more recently, Sue Garzone Hollingsworth, Patsy Alaksa Zamaria, Faye Rumbaugh Pesci, Shirley Callahan Seban, and my in-laws, Dorothy Stover and Ed Ripple. I lived with Orange Kat Ripple, an orange tabby, for 12 years and now with Purry Como, a big gentle, black and white bruiser who is 19. My dream home of 24 years was in Tiburo...Expand for more