The last night of my tour, and the Books & Co. crowd didn’t disappoint. Much of today was a road trip of sorts, flying into Cincinnati, driving to Northern Kentucky for a morning show, and then on to Dayton for the book event. Here’s a behind the scenes shot of me getting all mic’d up. The producer had me take my shoes off because I was too tall next to the host!
I knew as soon as I walked into the store that I was in good hands—the first staff member I saw was wearing her own fabulous variation on the Broken Hearted tee (project #3 in the book, for those of you following along). Sharon, the bookstore maven is a goddess among book folk, and her enthusiasm is reflected in her whole staff. One young lady even came in on her day off, just to slash up some T-shirts with us! The crowd was entertaining, too—even if one guy just wanted to find out how much money he could get for his bag of old corporate logo T-shirts. (Um, you could donate them to people like us who like to cut ’em up… Just an idea.)
In a change of heart, so to speak, we refashioned a bunch of the Broken Hearted tees (project #3) as that was the popular one with this crowd. One of the women in attendance brought an old over-sized T-shirt she had saved from her heart surgery recovery. Her story was so inspiring—I’m so glad she came out to share her story with us. And, damn, she looked fabulous!
[ Posted on April 6th, 2006 ]
