A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

Well, we did it.  We wrote up our pitch to the TODAY show and Marlo Thomas.  I would have sent it out last week, but Katherine wanted to attach pictures of us with the submission.  She said they would help with the marketing of us.

Ummm…. Maybe a picture of her would, but not of me…  I don’t like my picture taken.  It feels and looks like I’m standing in front of a firing squad.  I don’t even own a camera; I run from them; I’ll volunteer to take everyone’s picture, just so I’m not in it.  If I’m forced to be in a picture, I position myself just outside the lens’ reach; or I’m the one in the back, behind everyone else.  On a windy day, you may see a strand of my hair sticking out from behind someone else, if you’re lucky.

So, I’m totally against this idea, which doesn’t stop Katherine.  Whenever I say, “No,” by the time the “No” reaches Katherine’s ear… somehow… in her head… a challenge is born.  She doesn’t stop until she gets me to change my mind…  She’s very persuasive.

What once was a two-letter, one-word sentence, “No”— after Katherine gets through with me — turns into a string of …

No… No… but… but… I don’t like… I don’t want to… maybe… but… well, if you think it’s best… fine… fine… let’s just get this thing over with…

Once she convinced me that we needed the pictures, we had to find time where we’re in the same place together to take these blasted shots.  

The first couple of pictures she took of me were in front of one of those short palm trees, in a parking lot.  Those were not attractive shots.  Standing in front of the tree had me looking like a peacock, with a palm limb or two poking up my butt. 

After that fiasco, we decided to stick with having the two of us in the picture together.  At least I wouldn’t feel and look so… uncomfortable…

So, I met Katherine at her house after work one day, and she took some “action” shots with her computer and webcam.  We just sat around her kitchen table, laughing and talking, and she captured some of that.

I’m happy with the shot we took together, because it captured our friendship and personalities in the picture…

Katherine wanted to add individual shots.  I encouraged her to send shots of herself, but leave me out of them…

Luckily, we ran out of time before she could change my mind…again.

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