Chico songwriter, storyteller, and essayist Dena Moes is a Yale-educated nurse-midwife with a BA in literature and an MS in nursing. Her memoir, “The Buddha Sat Right Here: A Family Odyssey Through India and Nepal,” is a meditation on modern family life and a spiritual quest, that recounts a journey with her husband and two daughters in 2014 that led them to the Dalai Lama and the tree where the Buddha sat.