Rita, your new book of the same name, which I am proudly holding and you proudly putting out here that Mrs. Kelly's journey home, is just coming out and the play has already been out.

And so I'm thinking that seems like upside down to me, doesn't it?

Like a book usually happe and then something that that do other things like plays and so on.

Why did you do it in this order?

Well, probably because I didn't know any better.

This is the first play I've written, and the first book, and I originally started writing the book first, but it was so daunting.

There was so many decisions t make, so many directions to go.

And then I thought, well let's just start with the play.

And I did, and it just it just flowed out of me.

And and that's how it happened.

I was impressed as I watched the play and as I imagine I will be when I, when I read the book, now that it's just fresh off the presses here, with the strength of your mom I mean, I try to imagine myself just being relocate to some place I've never been.

Yeah, she had a lot of strength.

And that particular that episode with the Wilsons and her going by hersel with them on the camping trip.

What?

Tell me about her strength.

she just had a quiet courag that I think all of our mothers have that we don't appreciate till we're adults.

But the idea of just going of on an adventure with neighbors, and then the bear incident, you know, right.

But, yeah, sh she showed courage in tiny ways and in really big ways And I learned so much from her.

Yeah, yeah.

She's quite she was quite a woman.

Yes.

So you were indeed.

You were lucky to have her as your mom.

Absolutely.

and then the other thing, a I was thinking about this, like.

So what was that hardest par for you in, in performing this?

Well the hardest part in performing and writing of everything was memorizing it.

Yeah.

Because, I'm 66 years old and the idea of performing, a one woman show.

My director said to me, Brita, it's like, a high wire act without a net.

Yes.

I said, thank you.

There was no other actor to like, prompt to exactly right.

Exactly right.

It's all on you.

So a lot of little mental cues and just repetition, repetition, repetition.

That was hard.

Really.

Okay, well, I could repeat it all.

I wanted to and I would never remember that much.

So my hat's off to you.