This week, Ann Patchett interviewed me in the Concert Hall of the Kennedy Center about my memoir Be Ready When the Luck Happens. It was one of the great nights of my life!

When I left Washington, DC in 1978 to buy a specialty food store in a town I'd never been to, I remember wondering, "What will become of me??" If anyone had told me that I would be sitting on the stage of the concert hall at the Kennedy Center filled with such happy people and talking to ANN PATCHETT about my memoir, I'd have thought you'd lost your mind. I can't wait to come back in November with John Grisham!!