It is not easy keeping up with the life and times of Joanna Rees. But it sure is fun trying.  A competitive gymnast in high school and at Duke University where she majored in psychology, Rees upsticked to New York to work as a media planner earning $12,000 a year at an advertising agency, and then as a marketing executive at a French food company. There was a stint in New Jersey, where she rehabilitated a floundering 42-room hotel her parents had purchased, nursing it back to profit in three years.  She later moved to San Francisco, opening and then…