Friday, December 18, 2009

When Old Friends Meet







There’s nothing better than good friends getting together.

So many of my friends live in other states, so our communication is email and phone. Face to face is only at conferences or if we’re just darn lucky.

One of those times was last month when awesome buddy Beverly Barton was in San Diego speaking to my RWA chapter along with equally awesome Linda Howard and Linda Winstead Jones.

Beverly and I planned to have dinner after the meeting and we made sure the last third of our divahood, Paula Detmer Riggs, would be there also. Quite an undertaking when I live here, Beverly’s from Alabama and Paula lives in Oregon. But we did it!

We sat in the restaurant for hours just talking and laughing. What mattered to us was having this time together. And as you can see by the pictures, we did have fun. Paula’s the brunette in front, the laughing blonde and I’m the redhead.

We don’t know when we’ll be able to hook up together, but you can be assured when we do, we’ll be having just as much fun even if we’re in wheelchairs or using walkers!

Linda

5 comments:

  1. Looks like y'all were doing exactly what you're supposed to be doing...Enjoying life and the wonderful people in it!

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  2. We were, Elle. These two women are such good friends and I love them to pieces.

    Linda

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  3. I wish that Linda, Paula and I lived in the same town. But if we did, we'd spend all our time together having fun and never get any work done. I loved every minute we were together while I was in San Diego. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Linda & I can get Paula to come down South to Nashville in July for the RWA conference. --Beverly

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  4. You're right, Beverly. We would have fun all the time. So we'd have to behave. Sometimes.

    Linda

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  5. Thank God that Paula is still going to write her fantastic books! If you havent read a PDR books you just havent read!
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