a green umbrella, Robin Roberts’ book, From the Heart, Ruth Reichl’s book Garlic and Sapphires, People magazine, in a gray canvas…

See you next year…

Robin and Padma announce them and their schools….

some of the schools: Vassar, Manhattan College, College of New Jersey, Seton Hall University, Boston University, Trevor Day School, New York University, Fordham University, Pace University, Eastridge High School,

I’m uniquely qualified to do my job.

She says of Diane and her…we call ourselves Thelma (Diane) and Louise (me), as we’re about to fly off a cliff…

Robin is in a beige dress and jacket and sporting close-cropped hair.

How did I get here?

As my momma said, you can admire the problem as long as you like.

….looking great in a sleek black knit dress.

Diane talks about Robin.

She says Robin’s career can not be replicated–bowling champ at 10, C&W dj, covering Kuwait, Katrina. Robin writes in her book that fear keeps you in your comfort zone, but life comes at you…she talks about about Robin’s breast cancer and her bravery in the light of her illness..

…lousy housekeeper, not a good cook or an especially good mother.

when my mom was 5, she would answer the phone, ”How often are the pains coming?” Her parents wouldn’t let her become a doctor.

Her mother eventually opened a bookstore in Cleveland, in which she corresponded with well-known authors.

Mom wasn’t actually maternal, kids bored her. By the time mom married, cooking and cleaning didn’t take that long.

It was a time when there was a world of smart, educated women, who were idle. these women were very hard on their families.

The ocassion of what would have been my 100th’s birthday. I wish my mother could have been here.

P.S. Ruth is wearing a great all-black ensemble…

about being the child in a family of doctors

her advice:

women need to speak fast

pick your bosses well

it’s not over for women

it’s always personal

people do their best work when they feel valued and appreciated

…call lillies on the table in simple silver vases…

She speaks in French…and thanks all