Quick Hello

Hey, A,

Not much from me today, as I'm a little short on time. After a productive morning--power walk, laundry, car wash and vacuum, getting rid of experiments in my fridge (all by 10:30)--I need to hop in the shower to get ready to meet my friend M for lunch. She is leaving for Italy next week, so this may be the last time we get together this summer.

M and I have become close over the last few years. I teach with her, but more important than sharing a rarely satisfying career, we share a love of food and wine (dining out and cooking in) and travel, an obsession with grammar, an addiction to reading (including a guilty pleasure for "chick lit"), a zest for life. In many ways she is a composite of old friends who now live far away (especially you, DG, and JS).

I'll check in later tonight in hope of reading more from you and/or to share anything potentially interesting from my luncheon.

Have a great day. Love, Barb