In the 1950s, Pam Walatka was a freelance teenage reporter for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. In the 1960s, she graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, lived in Nepal as a Peace Corps Volunteer, and taught yoga at Esalen Institute. In the 70s, she was a wandering hippie-philosopher until settling in Los Altos Hills. In the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, she wrote tech manuals for NASA, and then freelanced for the Los Altos Town Crier and Los Altos Patch. She teaches yoga in Los Altos Hills and at the Pavilion in the Los Gatos mountains (where she now lives). She curates seven websites, accessible through pamwalatka.com. Recently she has gone back to work as Technical Writer Leader for NASA's Advanced Supercomputing divisision.