Catching Up

It's been a while since I posted, in part due to poor Internet service and partly because I'd immersed myself in the Missoula Colony -- a gathering of playwrights in Missoula, Montana, where I had a play presented, attended workshops and readings of other writers' work, networked with theatre peeps from across the USA, and overall had an exciting and supportive experience. Because it's trendy, the weeklong workshop featured only women writers, directors and theatre-makers, so for me, it was doubly inspiring. Plus, I did some great writing while I was there (and imbibed some tasty local brews, too). Good reasons to live in the moment and not blog about it. That said, here's a photo of me with my director and cast of Controlled Burn.

We left Missoula on Monday morning heading east again to arrive by Tuesday afternoon in Killdeer, North Dakota, where John is facilitating a meeting of the local ambulance service, which is challenged by increased call volume due to the influx of people in this oil-rich area. On the way, we stopped for coffee in Miles City, Montana.

And we had lunch on the roadside in the Theodore Roosevelt National Park in the North Dakota Badlands. 

  I had hoped to see the bison herds, but sadly, like the Montana trout, they eluded me.

However, we did see wild horses on the ridgeline.

As we drove through the Bakken oil reserve, you could see miles of wide-open green farmland that is now being "fracked" and drilled.

Notice the old farmhouse on the left next to the drilling machinery.