Pirate Voices and Squees on the Show Floor

There was a lot of squee-ing from me today.

There was the interview with John Michael Talbot:

Some of us have priorities other than socializing:

I worked with a few amazing newbie bloggers and quite a few different people on the trade show floor.

I had tears in my eyes when Margaret Rose Realy read from A Garden of Visible Prayer and tears–for a different reason–when Angela Breidenbach broke out in a pirate voice as part of her reading of Gems of Wisdom. Karina Fabian was at that reading too, and I heard one of my favorite parts of Why God Matters.

And then there was dinner:

From this group of smiles came the phrase “riding gunshot” and some unnamed young person spiked the baby’s hair. Maybe I have a prize for the person who can correctly identify the most people in this picture…and maybe the prize is a box of Cheerios… 🙂

The first Catholic Arts & Letters Awards will be awarded in the morning at the Catholic Marketing Network breakfast, which is early-early-EARLY.

Signing off from Valley Forge…

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