September 24, 2008

A Night with Anne Lamott

Our book club, thanks to Sarah for the heads up, got tickets to listen to Anne Lamott speak at the Belmar Center. Knowing Lisa was a fan of Anne's, I invited her to join us, and it turned out to be the beginning of her membership in our Radical group - welcome, New Radical!

We started out at the Baker Street Pub for dinner and a few *sigh* sunset libations. Sitting on the patio, we sipped and chattered away the end of a Colorado fall day. Anne's speech was just a short walk from the restaurant, so after our meal, we made our way to the auditorium. It was full!

Anne let us know that tonight was her last speaking engagement for this year and next. She was light-hearted, practiced, humorous, and very ProBama, which sat well with most of the attendees. As she finished up and headed to the book signing table, she even gave Kristen's beautiful Emerson a little love, proclaiming that it was great that he had come to this event. His brush with fame came so young!

Theresa, Lisa and I waited to get books signed, then met the rest of the Radicals at Whole Foods for a little sweet stuff to stretch the evening just a little longer.

September 18, 2008

And Ketchup

I'm sitting here, having lunch with my favorite girl. She's adorable today, if I may say so.

Not always does she make choices I agree with. I suspect this will be true for quite some time, right? Like right now, she's eating her dino chicken nuggets and ketchup. And some roasted fries (if I call them "roasted," do they sound healthier?) and ketchup. And sliced Colorado peaches and -you got it- ketchup.

Ick.

But she's still really cute, contemplating each bite, savoring the flavor. Maybe this indicates there's too much sugar in ketchup? Probably. But I'm not concerned, so I hope you won't hold it against me.

P.S. And cucumber and ketchup.

Have anything else I should see if she'll eat with ketchup??

September 05, 2008

A Quick Reassurance

Phew!


(Yes, LOTS to catch up on. Will try really hard to do that. Some day. When I'm not too busy gabbing.)