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Arts & Entertainment el to older adults, and is planning to donate proceeds to Alzheimer’s research. “I wouldn’t be here if the money was for me,� she said. She is already at work on her next novel, a mystery set in a small town. A park ranger (sound familiar?) finds herself in the midst of a murder case when her trusty dog discovers a dead body buried under a tree. “I know who the murderers are,� she said. “I just have to figure out how to get from where I’m at to there.� N

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A Mongolian contortionist, an Eastern European dulcimer, a contemporary dance piece that features a giant green rubber band. And you thought the suburbs were boring. For more about the local arts scene (including the above), check out Weekly arts editor Rebecca Wallace’s blog, Ad Libs, at blog.paloaltoonline. com/adlibs.

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Writer Misty Reddington has also been a park ranger and a teacher.

ongtime Mountain View resident Misty Reddington, 62, has worn many hats around the city. She’s worked as a ranger in Cuesta Park, as a teacher in a nearby convalescent hospital and as an exercise instructor at the adult school. But recently she’s decided to try on a new title for size: writer. “I never considered myself a novelist,� Reddington said, adding that she had always been a C student in her English classes. The urge to put pen to paper (or in this case, fingers to keyboard) came as she was ending her work with Alzheimer’s patients at the hospital. “This title kind of zapped into my mind, and I resolved to write it,� she said. “I wanted to close off that part of my life by writing a book.� Eight months later her debut novel, “A Wisp of Regret,� has come to fruition, self-published through Lulu.com. The story takes on a “now� and “then� format. The “then� chapters follow young Karen, whose first lover is an older man, Tom, her college professor. The “now� portion finds Karen as a middle-aged woman working at a convalescent hospital (sound familiar?). When she discovers Tom is now an old man suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, she seeks to repay the love and kindness he showed her so many years ago. Woven into this love story are elements of Reddington’s own life. One of the supporting characters is a dog, Toby, based on Reddington’s own standard poodle, Toby. The characters eat pizza and peanut butter, her favorite foods. They meet while swimming laps at the pool — Reddington swims every day at the local YMCA. And yes, when she was a young woman, she saw an older man.

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Kelsey Mesher writes for the Mountain View Voice, one of the Weekly’s sister papers. She can be reached at kmesher@mv-voice. com.

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