| Owner-operator of "Riley's Dream," a small B&B kind
of place on the southeastern shore of Medillo
Grande.
Emma inherited the property from her late father, Cap'n
Roy Riley, whom she barely knew, because, as her long-suffering
mother put it, "He's just a G-D sailor!"
As a child, Emma was always brighter than her surroundings. Her
mother's cycle of beauty parlor, bowling alley and Tuesday and Thursday
bridge with the other wives meant Emma was a Navy brat on her own.
And she made good use of the time.
She graduated from UC Berkeley when she was twenty and was a year
and a half into a biz-school management program before she let herself
be hired away by Silicon Valley to help it peddle its wares. |
