Turn Right at the Water Buffalo - Paperback

Barroga, Jeannie: - Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, baby boomer Jeannie Barroga is second of five siblings. Their Catholic-raised parents are Ilocano and Visayan, a mix common after World War II. Jeannie was an average student at a university taking Fine Arts, who after transferring to the English Department, moved to California. She plied more arts, settling on music band and documentary reviews for a Stanford underground newspaper before freelancing as Bay Frog Graphics. Only full-time gig was in Stanford Pediatrics, then at Palo Alto Weekly, and then Learning Magazine re-named Mother Jones. Returning to Wisconsin to magazine graphics, she married an artist yet moved back and worked at Stanford Alumni before becoming TheatreWorks' Literary Manager overlapping the same position at Oakland Ensemble Theater. Single again, her produced plays garnered awards and are in various theses and syllabi cross-country. She worked a myriad of jobs, served on national panels, taught, co-produced online shorts, and married the actor in her plays, Tony. Their marriage came with cats who accept the arrangement. Jeannie is inspired by Madeleine L'Engle, Nicola Tesla, American musicals, complicity, the 1950s, The Wizard of Oz, Dashiell Hammett, the Milwaukee Braves, and Hui Playwrights to write on women, art, and politics. More plays now are read at zoom meetings, with one taped for a 2021 online production at UH-Hilo's Performing Arts Center. Two more books are due out soon. With this book, she pays tribute to loved ones passing on: Sarah, Rita, June, Ann, Myrna, Al, Martin, Peter (rally, VBL and GH).